Incidentally, proper ventilation is still not mandated, funded or installed in the vast bulk of these schools (including the new build school that I can see under construction from my living room window) despite the fact it would allow kids to stay in school in the event of another covid pandemic.
rankamateurUp here all of my family and friends’ schools (who worked in education) were open. They’d be teaching essential workers’ kids + teachers were collecting vulnerable* kids to teach them. They were also doing online lessons. *the ones who would likely have been dead if they’d been allowed to stay home