Trump on Monday "SCHOOLS MUST REOPEN!"
Florida on Tuesday "All schools must reopen in-person in August".
So that answers part of the questions - in some states beholden to Trump they'll go back, COVID rates be damned.
Everywhere else it must be, and should be, calibrated to the situation on the ground. In NYC now I'm comfortable saying schools should go back. If bars are closed you sit at home. If my kid isn't in school for 1 week in 2 in September then, assuming the NYC situation remains stable, they'll be spending every other week at camp, or in the care of a neighbor with kids with whom we'll trade off. He will come home to me, who will likely have spent the day in an office in Manhattan which I'll likely reach via the subway. I don't see any incremental benefit from lowering capacity at schools in that reality and think the changes they're discussing will push the creaking NYC public school system over the edge.
"Are you sure we're going fast enough?" - Emil Zatopek
Florida on Tuesday "All schools must reopen in-person in August".
So that answers part of the questions - in some states beholden to Trump they'll go back, COVID rates be damned.
Everywhere else it must be, and should be, calibrated to the situation on the ground. In NYC now I'm comfortable saying schools should go back. If bars are closed you sit at home. If my kid isn't in school for 1 week in 2 in September then, assuming the NYC situation remains stable, they'll be spending every other week at camp, or in the care of a neighbor with kids with whom we'll trade off. He will come home to me, who will likely have spent the day in an office in Manhattan which I'll likely reach via the subway. I don't see any incremental benefit from lowering capacity at schools in that reality and think the changes they're discussing will push the creaking NYC public school system over the edge.
"Are you sure we're going fast enough?" - Emil Zatopek