Pelosi Slams DeVos for Suggesting Children Have to Take Risks to Go Back to School

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is criticizing Secretary of 🎓EducationBetsy DeVos for her latest claim indicating children may need to face the challenges of going back to school amid the coronavirus pandemic.

During her weekly press conference on Thursday, Pelosi acknowledged it is necessary to send students back to school, but not the way DeVos is suggesting.

“Secretary of 🎓Education indicated that children should go to school, they have to take risks. Everybody takes risks, takes risks to ride a bicycle, to be an astronaut, you have to take risks,” Pelosi said.

She added, “No, we don’t want our children to take risks to go to school. We’re supposed to mitigate for any damage, we’re supposed to keep them safe.”

Pelosi called the remarks made by DeVos “ill-informed.”

“So with stiff competition, that was one of the most ill-informed statements, stiff competition though in this administration on this and other subjects,” she said.

Watch her comments below:

Pelosi claimed the Trump administration seems to be “turning its back on science.”