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Originally Posted by Crawford
This again. Schools were open.
Europe didn't have widespread in-school learning until the Fall 2020, same as the U.S. At least in Germany, their policies (windows and doors open even in cold weather months, weekly in-school self-testing) would have never flown in the U.S.
The vast majority of U.S. districts, public and private, had some in-school option during the majority of the 2020-21 school year. If a parent wanted an in-school option that school year, there were possibilities.
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Crawford, it’s obvious that primary schools exist mainly as day care for children and secondly as environments where they learn social interaction. The “book learning” itself is only a tertiary purpose of elementary education, and that’s the only function that schools were fulfilling for the end of 2019-20 and most of the 2020-21 school year.
Parents who were upset about this were right to be because kids were never at risk and neither were the vast majority of their parents and teachers. The older teachers who were at risk should just have been placed on paid leave and replaced with some 20-something recent teaching grad as a sub.
As for kids spreading Covid more generally, no child should have been visiting grandma and grandpa for the duration of the pandemic (and anyone who had their grandkids visit at Christmas 2020 is an idiot).