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| As the School Year Approaches, Education May Become the Pandemic's Latest Casualty |
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| By Katie Reilly |
| Reporter, TIME |
As the debate over reopening schools reached a fever pitch in July, my colleague Molly Ball and I teamed up to look at how, if things had been done differently at the start of the pandemic, schools in the U.S. might be able to reopen in the fall. It quickly became clear that parents, teachers and individual school districts, no matter how hard they try to prepare for the new school year, are all struggling with the same dilemma: how to keep kids and school employees safe while also providing tens of millions of children with access to education.
Wesley Elementary School in Middletown, Conn., which I visited one day as children attended in-person summer school, offered us a look at the effort required to make things work. I saw a school trying to enforce temperature checks and physical distance in a setting meant for collaborative learning and playful discovery. I saw the challenges of getting young children to adhere to strict health rules — a girl removing her mask to eat a stick of string cheese, a boy trying to high-five his teacher. Middletown superintendent Michael Conner showed me the building's new safety features, starting with a thermal temperature scanner at the entrance that asks visitors in a robotic voice to "please wear a mask" and ending with the plastic desk shields that separate teachers and students in classrooms.
But as coronavirus cases rise across America, many school districts have decided that in-person learning is a risk they cannot take. As a result, many parents are taking matters into their own hands, creating learning "pods" to share tutoring costs or opting for home-schooling.
The inevitable cost of all of this is a further widening of the opportunity gap between affluent and low-income children, who often depend on school for internet access, free meals and other social services. But for all parents, protecting their children from a dangerous virus takes precedence. As one mother told us: "I don't want my kids to be a guinea pig." |
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