[M T]

I would suggest that the focus then should be in opening schools in a way that minimizes the risk to teachers.

Your suggestion presupposes that schools open. 
Given your minimum risk protocols,  if you still find that the risk of any particular teacher getting COVID-19 is 99%, you still open schools?
If you find that the risk of any particular teacher getting COVID-19 is 1%, but the median number of parents of that that teacher's students that get COVID-19 after the child gets COVID-19 was 20, you still open schools?

(One could probably push 1% for the teachers if teachers were remote, or if teachers were dressed in full PPE all the time.  But most of us think of in-person classes as where the teachers interact with the kids, like getting between or pulling apart two or five fighting 8 year-olds.  But I don't see any way parents would be able to be remote or in full PPE with their kids.)

I would suggest that we look at the risk to the total population (kids, teachers, household members of the kids, and the overall COVID rate if schools become the COVID party that makes many of the community infected).


I'm not sure how our society can say "COVID parties are bad, but in-person classes are good."

[M T]

I would suggest that the focus then should be in opening schools in a way that minimizes the risk to teachers.

Your suggestion presupposes that schools open. 
Given your minimum risk protocols,  if you still find that the risk of any particular teacher getting COVID-19 is 99%, you still open schools?
If you find that the risk of any particular teacher getting COVID-19 is 1%, but the median number of parents of that that teacher's students that get COVID-19 after the child gets COVID-19 was 20, you still open schools?

(One could probably push 1% for the teachers if teachers were remote, or if teachers were dressed in full PPE all the time.  But most of us think of in-person classes as where the teachers interact with the kids, like getting between or pulling apart two or five fighting 8 year-olds.  But I don't see any way parents would be able to be remote or in full PPE with their kids.)

I would suggest that we look at the risk to the total population (kids, teachers, household members of the kids, and the overall COVID rate if schools become the COVID party that makes many of the community infected).


I'm not sure how our society can say "COVID parties are bad, but in-person classes are good."