What is the plan to safely reopen schools if the vaccine doesn’t work?
http://dailytorch.com/2020/08/what-is-the-plan-to-safely-reopen-schools-if-the-vaccine-doesnt-work/
If the coronavirus vaccine doesn’t work, what is the plan to educate the 56.6 million children in elementary, middle and high schools? After all, there has never been an effective vaccine against coronavirus. This month, normally, those children would be returning to school. Instead, many of them have not been there since March. And now millions of other parents have no idea when many of those schools will ever reopen. Most states are deciding to leave it up to individual districts to decide whether it is safe to reopen. In a district by district sample compiled by Education Week in 382 districts covering 13 million students enrolled: 107 districts covering 2 million students were fully reopen, 64 districts covering 2.1 million were using a hybrid or partially reopen model and 175 districts covering 8 million students were closed and only using distance learning. In that sample, 61 percent of students are using remote learning. If representative of the nation, the net effect is that most students are not returning to school in the U.S.—at least not yet. Presumably, everyone’s waiting for the vaccine. Federal officials have suggested we’ll have something by the end of the year. Yet nobody wants to ask the question, because it’s uncomfortable: What if the vaccine doesn’t work? President Donald Trump wants to condition federal funds for safely reopening with protective equipment on schools actually reopening, while Joe Biden would give the money with no strings attached. What do you think should be done to safely reopen schools?
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