For all my fellow parents who want the teachers to go to school during a pandemic, do you really think that life in the classroom will look anything like normal?

Of course, teachers (which I am one of them) could just forgo safety precautions and see what happens.

However, if safety measures are followed than the classroom will be little more than a prison. There will be no touching between teachers and students, or students and students. Children will have to sit at their desks most of the day. I teach younger children and that would be hell, for teacher and students. I have students who have so little bodily awareness for themselves or others. There will be no comforting of children's physical or emotional pain. No sharing. Everyone keeping in line at the proper distance. No good education will happen, just childcare (which many parents feel is what teachers do anyway).

In regards to health concerns, my wife works a county health department and is now in charge of a track and tracing team. She works 11-12 hours a day, 6 days a week, and often comes home in tears. Due to HEPA rules she can't share. But she gets frustrated and mad at people saying children do not have to worry. But she is seeing not only children getting sick but taking out whole families. And these families are poor.

And the part that sucks is that these families have to choose to stay home and not earn money and care for their family, or go out when positive to make money, endangering their coworkers and their families with the ripple effect. And guess where their children are going? To school, so they can work.

This inequity is due to an cold economic system for profit. People who are isolating for the protection of the community needs to be rewarded for that. And that is not the schools' responsibility.

Additionally, schools will need to shut down, or at least, large segments, when we have someone test positive. And is that Covid-19 or the flu, as we reach flu season. Children are sent to school sick all the time because of parents having to work.

Of the two evils, I feel the lesser one is remote viewing when classes cannot go back to normal. And society needs to take care of those who are suffering due to it.