; Whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention never made a widespread recommendation that all school districts across the country should close due to concerns about COVID–19; Whereas, during the hearing on June 23, Dr. Redfield agreed with Representative Schrader’s assessment of the reality that children are unlikely to maintain distancing of 6 feet at school and that transporting children to schools while allowing only one child to sit in each row on buses is impossible for most jurisdictions; Whereas Representative Schrader labeled CDC recommendations pertaining to the opening of schools pie in the sky perfection recommendations that have no chance in hell of actually happening at the local level due to lack of funding and human nature, and indicated a need for more realistic recommendations; Whereas, in the hearing on June 23, witnesses and Members of the Committee agreed that, “If we have kids not going to school, we run the huge risk of the wealthy kids getting a great education online … and the lower income kids get[ting] no education”; Whereas, at the hearing on June 23, Dr. Redfield testified schools should be closed jurisdiction by jurisdiction, when we see issues in the schools and the focus in the fall must be the consequences of this virus, which are mortality, hospitalization, the economy ; and Whereas, at the hearing on June 23, Dr. Redfield testified we need to open our schools under realistic recommendations addressing how we expect those schools to act based on the consequences of what we think this virus is going to pay for those individuals in schools. It doesn’t mean we don’t have to be vigilant about protecting the vulnerable … But no longer does that mean we have to shut down schools, shut down the economy : Now, therefore, be it