My wife is on a school board meeting with her district right now. Her board is making the same call as mine, which is to go 100% online through the first quarter.
Everyone knows how difficult this is for parents, and we also know that online instruction is not equal in quality to what we can provide in person. We also know it's not that simple.
One of the board members cut right to it:
We have to choose between instruction and safety.
^ Regarding the burden this places on parents:
A parent who spoke at my district board meeting last week shared that she is a single parent, an essential worker, and has difficulty paying for child care even in normal circumstances. She asked the board to make a formal request to the state to subsidize full-time daycare while school buildings are closed.
I don't know what this looks like where you live, but I think it's worth applying this pressure to your state legislatures.
@voltronic Our Mayor or our Governor, not sure which, has already provided subsidies for essential working parents & daycares here for at least these past two months; my daughters work for an airline & have received free daycare through the resources available here.
Folks in similar situations need to check if they have this aid already available in their community; my daughters didn't know about this until I pointed it out to them. I think I found it through the state or county's HHS dept?