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Yesterday, we had a look at the latest research about school-aged children and how they are not effective spreaders of COVID-19. We also discussed how these kids and teenagers are more at risk of becoming severely ill from influenza than COVID-19.

Yet school administrators across the country continue to shut down schools for “the safety of the children.” Readers of The Bleeding Edge know that isn’t the case at all. Unlike the press, we have reviewed the scientific research.

And last week, I wrote about an incredible statistic that only 2.5% of universities in the U.S. are opening fully to five days a week on campus. What I forgot to mention was that my undergraduate alma mater, Purdue University, is one of those schools.

I earned my Bachelor of Science in aeronautical and astronautical engineering back in 1991. Those four years were some of the best in my life, and I worked extremely hard to get that degree.

Purdue’s program is one of the very best in the world. And I’ve got nothing but pride for Purdue right now. It is being rational and logical and is acting in best interests of their customers (the students) and their well-being.

The reason that I raise this point today is that The Washington Post just put out a terrible article doing its best to show Purdue in a bad light – a “national poster school for the push to bring students to campus and teach in person despite the public health crisis – a push that in many other places has failed or is in deep jeopardy.”

I wonder how long the Post had to search for a couple of professors to make some comments that the new systems put in place for distancing and wireless network access weren’t perfect? The article didn’t include a single positive perspective from faculty, and embarrassingly, it did not include comments from a single student on campus. This is not journalism.

Mitch Daniels, the 12th president of Purdue and former governor of Indiana, summed it up perfectly: “To tell [our students], ‘Sorry, we are too incompetent or too fearful to figure out how to protect your elders, so you have to disrupt your education,’ would be a gross disservice to them and a default of our responsibility.”