I'm not endorsing the simplistic and punitive Trump Administration spin that is at issue in your story, so I'm not sure what your point is.
Both the “reopen without significant investment in safety” and “stay closed” sides are both grave health risks and education failures, as the original statement itself implies and the further elaboration makes clear.
It's probably the case that, reduced to those options, “stay closed” (to in-person schooling, continuing distance learning) is best for teachers, so it's understandable that with governments refusing to offer more when it comes to reopening that’s their stance. But even when it is reduced to those two bad options, it's far less clear that that's the best for kids (especially since a lot of the private internet access subsidies from ISPs, that were given with no obligation by providers, that mitigated the inequities with distance learning have expired.)
