We’re five months into life upended by a global pandemic. Each attempt to return to normal has reliably come back a few weeks or a month later to remind us that normal is still very much out of reach. Now, schools are the most important sites of fraught debate over what life can or should look like going forward. Parents, teachers, school staff members, children and young adults starting their college careers are each juggling unique combinations of risk to their health, livelihood, personal growth and professional development. California has issued guidelines for grade schools to reopen that would require most to start the school year remotely because case rates are too high in the counties where the vast majority of the state’s residents live.

Source: New York Times August 13, 2020 12:45 UTC