I've seen very little so far on recent effects, largely because when it hit most schools closed. And then those which reopened often did so in countries with MUCH lower new infection rates than we have in the US.
I'm a little concerned by the reports of some kids infected with COVID manifesting symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease, but that seems few and far between so far.
That said, I haven't seen any studies that show that the risk of transmission among kids or the risk of serious complications among kids is significant enough to warrant limiting their educations as badly as I expect will happen with 100% distance learning.
But I could be wrong... And it's entirely possible that society will take the choice out of my hands, particularly here in CA. At this point Los Angeles County and San Diego County have announced that they do not plan to open school campuses in the fall and plan to start with 100% distance learning.
Up until just this week, our school district was planning on offering a choice between online, or in-person. Their surveys showed them that enough people would choose the online-only option, that social distancing within the classrooms would be possible.
Now it seems that they're headed the other way, and are likely to go 100% online.
I honestly think the damage caused by that, would be worse than not going to school at all-- at least for my 12yo 7th grader.
She's a straight-A+ student and born teacher-pleaser, but absolutely needs the direct face-to-face contact with her teachers, as well as the social interaction in classes, and maybe most importantly the structured environment, that can only be found in in-person school. She suffered tremendously, stopped turning in all of her assignments for a month, descended from a bubbly, upbeat, smart pre-teen to a sullen, isolated, unhappy tweenager, in the span of 2 months. Her teachers started calling me directly, and asking me what was wrong, because it was just so completely unlike her.
I won't be doing that again. If we're not in-person in school, then we're dropping out for a year until they can figure out a way to make it work.
And what I have yet to see, is for any administrators to provide me evidence of the risks of child-to-child transmission, and child-to-adult transmission, to warrant keeping the schools shut-down. If the mantra of the "Careful" in this pandemic has been to "follow the science"
then where is that science??? Show me. Prove to me one way or the other.
Because I will not ever, EVER allow my child's future and education to be put at risk again, the way it was last Spring.