We extended Christmas break a week, which could have made sense. But we resumed school today and it's face-to-face for the first time since Thanksgiving break. Next week we'll be virtual. The following week will be face-to-face again. Nobody can explain the logic of it.
There is no logic that I can see. It smells like a lowest-common-denominator committee decision. There's a majority faction on the school board whose inclination is that school should be open and masks should be optional. The week of virtual, nonsensically placed as it will be, is probably all they'll agree to right now.
Right now Oklahoma has the highest positivity rate in the USA, and we're having 30-40 deaths a day. Numbers are going up, not down. COVID ICU patients are being sent out of state.
In public education, we always claim that our decision-making is data-based. That's what we claim.