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.
I had to delete and redraft. A run-on sentence followed by an incomplete sentence due to typo is especially grievous coming from a teacher who is about to be doing remote instruction for an extended period of time. Mea culpa.
@voltronic Three ruler-smacks to the right-hand knuckles.
@GeorgeG
I went to Catholic elementary school. You're giving me flashbacks.
@voltronic @GeorgeG Good Morning! I went too...I always got that paddle with all the holes in it which I swear the Nuns got a kick out of using because they'd have these sinister grins & looks of satisfaction on their faces as they watched me try to sit down after a paddling😂
^ That was an even worse one. Mea maxima culpa.