approaches a return to school in September, Switzerland and Denmark may offer clues on how to keep schools open amid a pandemic. Switzerland, despite sharing a border with Northern Italy — the former epicentre of Europe's coronavirus outbreak — sent children back to class on May 11. Classrooms were initially split into two groups, explained Liam Printer, a teacher based in Switzerland and host of the podcast The Motivated Classroom. Jennifer Santos Olsen, a Canadian-born mother living in Denmark, sent her eight-year-old daughter back to school in late April. Besides sanitizing and distancing measures, Olsen said her daughter's class was split into three groups spread throughout the school.

Source: CBC News August 15, 2020 18:00 UTC