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[quote=Anonymous]I am a teacher. I do understand math and I think the youngest children and special needs children should be in school; many aren't learning remotely. If they are, that's great, DL should be an option.

It's not a "fixation". I'm not fetishizing in-person school. I'm not placing it above the health of people. I believe that we COULD open school [i]safely[/i] for  those youngest and neediest students - [i]but we aren't willing to pay the price[/i]. I'm wishing society/government placed the reopening of schools much higher on the list of priorities.  I want to see schools properly funded so they can improve ventilation, create isolation rooms for kids who are waiting to go home, prepare technology, hire additional staff to supervise groups of students, reduce class sizes,  get transportation plans in place, increase sub pay so that when teachers are sick there IS a sub available, and put up party tents for subjects that might have outdoor lessons like art, PE, science, and music. They need to have both online and in-person classes be viable options, so will need more teachers.

Someone remarked that we shouldn't close bars because parents worked there and they need to pay rent and buy food. How about we subsidize those workers/establishments with cash payments to get them through the pandemic while leaving schools open? How about we put the money needed into schools so that they can open safely? Instead politicians are still babbling about cutting taxes and preventing "wasteful" spending. I don't think it's wasteful to make sure young kids get to be in school. 
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