Karen Pence talks re-opening schools in Soutch Carolia
REMARKS BY SECOND LADY KAREN PENCE IN A ROUNDTABLE WITH VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE, GOVERNOR MCMASTER, AND MRS. MCMASTER ON SAFELY REOPENING SCHOOLS Pastides Alumni Center University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina THE SECOND LADY: Thank you. You know, as a teacher myself, I want to just take a moment to thank all the teachers because we all quickly learned how to do online teaching, and it wasn't something that our teachers across America were familiar with, and so I applaud the teachers who stepped up right away. I know at our school it was a lot of, you know, me emailing the IT specialist saying, "Okay, now wait a minute. How do I put these art projects in a folder on this new platform?" And I know the teachers worked really, really hard. But the parents are really the unsung heroes -- and I know we have some parents in the room today -- because they really had to get up to speed, and many of them were trying to telework from home as w...