Most elementary school districts offer in -school and virtual learning from home…
But 3 weeks into the fall school term the infection ‘hits’ have been relatively small and localised….
School ‘s have not ‘close down’ for the terms….
Most do close for a day or two to do strong cleaning and then resume…
School admin have been very careful in their openings….
(NY City and Los Angles school district’s have yet to fully open)
As this news gets around admin’s are going be faced with additional parents sending their kids TO school as the warm weather goes away…
The college level school’s are a different matter…
They DO have larger issues….
“Everyone had a fear there would be explosive outbreaks of transmission in the schools. In colleges, there have been. We have to say that, to date, we have not seen those in the younger kids, and that is a really important observation,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota….
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This does not mean the risk of contracting the coronavirus is zero. Poor and inconsistent reporting in many parts of the country means that experts do not yet have a full view of the situation, and most schools have been open for only a few weeks. It’s also unclear how closely the incidence of the coronavirus in schools is tied to policies in schools such as mandatory mask-wearing.
Most of the nation’s largest districts opened with fully remote teaching, so the data are largely from smaller communities. And the pandemic may grow worse as flu season and winter approaches.
But the fact that large swaths of the country opened for in-person school while others did not offers the more cautious districts a chance to observe how things have gone elsewhere in charting their next steps.
It’s way too early to say anything definitive as to schools ability to cope with Covid infections.
We will have a clearer picture by say the end of October.