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In reply to the discussion: Why are we so "dead-set" on re-opening all the schools? [View all]Dorian Gray
(13,491 posts)It wasn't around last year.
Have you been following the numbers in San Francisco and Los Angeles? They've gone down the last couple of weeks, and schools opened two weeks ago.
Schools (with proper mitigation efforts) are not drivers of spread. If everyone masks, there is good ventilation with air circulation,and there is proper testing in the community... it helps prevent spread. Also, the american Pediatrics association and a whole slew of doctors and scientists believe opening schools is very important to the mental well being and emotional health.
Kids in wealthier communities can afford at home tutors to help guide remote learning. People in lower income communities can not. They've fallen off the grid. I have friends who are public school teachers who have watched their students check out and disappear from their class rolls.
We can do this safely and we have to try.