Where to start... :D
You know there's an attempt to manipulate when the same people who are now faulting the schools/teachers for closing schools, claiming irreparable damage and emotional harm, are the ones usually singing the praises of online charters and homeschooling. So, which is it? Do you harm your child by removing them from public schools?
And does walking into a school 5 days a week remove all the stress and danger and fear of living through a world-wide pandemic in which you watch family members suffer, deal with unemployment, etc.? No.
Before I would listen to any politician or even public figure's opinion on this subject, I would consider their position on mental health funding for the past 20 or so years. On poverty, on privatization, support of neighborhood schools. If they haven't been all in, then why the sudden interest? What is to gain, besides diversion and division?
And realistically, are they conducting their interviews and other business from home? Or are they locked in a 20x20 unventilated room with 30 maskless kids all day, while the community spread is at 30% positivity rate? Do the people spouting this have any idea about what actually can and cannot be controlled within a school system?
tldr: virus bad; schools not magic