The Debate About School Safety Is No Longer Relevant

For months, the debate about whether to open schools has centered on one question: Are schools safe? The only trouble is, this hardly matters anymore. Except in the few remaining regions with modest rates of viral spread, the transmission risk from and within schools is now beside the point. So many teachers and staff members are sick, quarantining, or have stepped down that many schools trying to remain open or to reopen just do not have the personnel available to do so well.

This posits that schools can't reopen traditionally because of how short staffed they are. COVID has really unmasked and exacerbated issues that were already there, so it shouldn't be too surprising why teachers are leaving the field.

Submitted January 05, 2021 at 06:17AM by milqi https://ift.tt/2Xc6ekn