'Once again, ensuring safe and stable in-person education remains an afterthought, rather than a primary goal of the U.S. Covid response.'
As the fourth pandemic school year approaches, the US has converged on a single goal: schools must return to normal. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona
of new CDC guidance for"minimizing the impact of COVID-19" which, he wrote,"should give students, parents and educators the confidence they need to head back to school with a sense of joy & optimism."Yet the new guidance, like the US's approach to schools from the onset of the pandemic, is designed not to minimize impacts on schools but rather around the perennial goal of.
Since the no-longer-novel coronavirus shuttered schools in March 2020, the choices of political leaders across the country consistently put the goal of in-person education and child care behind other goals. As surge after surge set the country further from the goal of reopening schools in late 2020,