our local school district has been spending the past couple of weeks soliciting options and opinions from residents. I've actually been pretty impressed because this area is really #justaflubro land, full of anti-maskers. Three options have been proposed: full-time in-person school, all on-line, or a hybrid approach. I believe the in-person and on-line options could be chosen by parents. The hybrid is my favorite: the thought is in school for one week, on-line for two weeks. This ensures that the schools are actually at 1/3rd capacity whenever kids are in-person. This makes sense, and I think it completely doable and a pretty damn good compromise.
But, this is South Carolina. We are run by #justaflubro politicians taking cues from President #justaflubro. The state legislature is holding $210M from local school districts that want a virtual option and don't open when they want to. This goes against recommendations from DHEC (department of health and environmental control) and Department of Education.
This makes me ill. forcing kids (my kids) into face-to-face learning, against advice from DHEC, Department of Education, CDC, etc, in the middle of a pandemic to score political points - this should be criminal.
If you are curious how we are doing as a state,
not well. We don't have the population of Florida so we don't get the huge numbers, but we are spiking just like they are.