We start school on Monday - online only. For now, it's online-only until Aug 17th, but that date may be moved. It's up to the school board, as our state leader and national leader have obfuscated their influences.
I'm the "online only" teacher for my grade level, as in I'll be teaching that way as long as there are students not showing up in person. So it's possible I could teach all year without meeting my students...which sucks.
Overall, for this virus, at least we have an example of what NOT to do. During the next one (and there will be a next one), we must not set arbitrary dates over and over and after several have passed, setting arbitrary dates to re-open. That's what we've done: back in April, we started the "hope and wait ___ weeks" thing. Wait 2 weeks, and hopefully it'll be better. Wait a month and hopefully it'll be better. Wait 2 months, and eh, it's not really better, but it's not worse, so let's re-open.
Half-measures and hope are garbage strategies. A hardcore shutdown for 3 weeks would make sense. Go out, gather your food and bullets and toilet paper for the next 3 weeks, because everyone is on lockdown.
As long as we hold fast to our freedom to spread the disease, our freedom will imprison us.
