The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is arguing that “even though opening school does pose a risk for the spread of Covid-19, there are many reasons why opening schools in the fall of 2020 for in-person instruction is important.”
The main reasons, according to the CDC, are the following: “Schools play a critical role in the wellbeing of communities” and “Schools provide critical instruction and academic support.”
It also urges that K-12 schools should “coordinate, plan, and prepare” reopenings and expect “potential COVID-19 cases and increased school community transmission.”
Meanwhile, teachers remain skeptical about reopening. In a previous interview with Bored Panda, an experienced teacher named Melissa Hillman, whose Twitter thread on the alarming scenario of what will happen if schools reopen has gone viral, said that safe reopening is impossible.
“You can’t safely reopen schools when a third of your parents are not following the basic directives that keep the local community safe.”
The teacher also called schools “notorious petri dishes” and said that the danger lies in a “a significant percentage who are not just non-compliant with common-sense safety recommendations, but are actively hostile to them.”
