'Recipe for disaster': As COVID rises, few Kansas City area schools heed expert advice

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https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/education/article252902853.html

"Less than a month before the start of the new school year, as COVID-19 cases are surging and hospitals are turning away patients, few Kansas City area districts are heeding expert advice on opening classrooms safely.

National and local health officials urge them to at least require unvaccinated students and staff to wear masks, worried that outbreaks could lead to more school closures. The highly contagious delta variant combined with students returning to school unmasked is a “recipe for disaster,” Dr. Angela Myers, division director of infectious diseases at Children’s Mercy, told reporters this past week.

But so far, only Kansas City Public Schools and the Kansas City, Kansas, district have said they plan to follow that guidance. The rest of the districts in the region have either made masks optional or are still undecided."

[captain queeg]

1. I hadn't thought about the impacts of returning to school

That’s still more than a month away but if there isn’t a concerted effort to prepare, things could really get bad when kids go back to school. My son’s college is requiring everyone to be vaccinated but it looks like a lot of places are courting disaster.

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2. Zillow should start listing these great areas' dangerous schools

Quit buzzwording how academically outstanding they are.

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3. My unvaxed 5th grader will be wearing a mask to school