If we get virus numbers down like Taiwan or South Korea or most of Europe, we could reopen our schools. If we continue like we are, they would certainly function to grow and prolong the outbreak, and result in more deaths and worse economy.
I think focusing on ways to operate schools with large cohorts of students who are together daily in confined spaces, is a fool's errand when our prevalence is so high. Focus on getting the virus under control, rather than how many desks you can fit in a room. Dispensaries, restaurants, and beaches I'm certain are less risky at propagating a respiratory disease than groups of 30 kids in classrooms and playing together at recess, even if I think schools are a more important and worthwhile thing to have operational than the others.
Considering the leaders most invested in boosting school reopenings are the ones who are least invested in getting control of the virus, I don't think those leaders really care about kid's educations, or people's lives, so much as their own political fortunes.
I think focusing on ways to operate schools with large cohorts of students who are together daily in confined spaces, is a fool's errand when our prevalence is so high. Focus on getting the virus under control, rather than how many desks you can fit in a room. Dispensaries, restaurants, and beaches I'm certain are less risky at propagating a respiratory disease than groups of 30 kids in classrooms and playing together at recess, even if I think schools are a more important and worthwhile thing to have operational than the others.
Considering the leaders most invested in boosting school reopenings are the ones who are least invested in getting control of the virus, I don't think those leaders really care about kid's educations, or people's lives, so much as their own political fortunes.