The school crisis due to the coronavirus, it is not yet known when the school year will begin

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(CNN) –– Everyone agrees that this is a nightmare. Children have to go back to school. But exactly nobody knows how to do it.

What we do know is that the Donald Trump administration, which focuses on protecting statues, is unlikely to be very helpful.

When will school start? Where will it be? Within a month many children start school, and some of the larger school districts do not have a plan. They don't even have a start date. If they have a start date, like in Los Angeles, it's unclear if the kids will be on campus.

It is a total crisis of society. Children really can't learn this way. And parents can't work this way.

Remote learning is not going to do it. It just can't.

Not everyone has access to the Internet.

Young children will not sit still in front of a screen.

Big kids fail.

And if parents are helping with remote learning all day, or even a few days each week, they are not working. The reality is that a large part of what school does for society is caring for children.

Distance learning can be better than nothing. You might even lose your patience if you're trying to deal with camp and activities this summer and your kids have found a way to play Fortnite or watch Netflix for an unpleasant number of hours each day until you let them go wild, wild, in the neighborhood just so you can do your job for a few hours.

I feel sorry for parents trying to work without a daycare since their children are too young to go wild. That's assuming you still have a job: CNN's Tami Luhby reports that parents who have been able to claim unemployment benefits because their schools or daycare centers closed due to covid-19 may not be able now that some options are opening, even if they are very limited. .

No, distance learning is not the ultimate answer.

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There are a variety of models implemented elsewhere, such as staggered schedules and strict distancing. Or, in Denmark, some schools have isolated each classroom in groups or protective bubbles, and they don't mix outside of their class. But in the UK, the government had to abandon a plan to reopen all schools.

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The resurgence has worsened an already cloudy situation. Even where schools are making plans to reopen, it is not even clear whether they will be able to continue, as many states have stalled or reversed their plans to reopen. Schools must have plans for remote learning and plans for in-person learning and be ready to pivot if their states become critical points again.

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Children need in-person learning. The American Academy of Pediatrics, which presumably has the public health and well-being of individual children in its interest, released a statement Monday asking schools to prioritize children who are physically in the classroom.

The statement also says there is evidence that the past six months have affected children and put them at increased risk for morbidity and mortality:

"Policies to mitigate the spread of covid-19 within schools must be balanced against the known harm to children, adolescents, families and the community by keeping children at home."

Covid-19 will continue to be a concern. Meanwhile, teacher unions and parents will focus on keeping themselves and their children safe from the covid-19.

Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul expressed these concerns very well yesterday when he pressured Dr. Anthony Fauci on the issue of schools during his appearance before Congress. But he expressed his frustration about closed schools with a large number of inaccurate statements that it is safe for children, who do not transmit the virus. Read Paul's comments here.

Sterilized classrooms? Ha CNN's Evan McMorris-Santoro recently wrote about a New York school district and described how they are still evaluating a variety of plans.

But I was wondering what it would be like ultimately for the children to finally return. This is how Evan described the cumbersome process of entering and being inside a school, even without students.

“Going to a school in New York these days is a slow process. Visitors are monitored for temperature and asked a series of questions about possible symptoms related to covid-19 before they are allowed to enter. Once there, they are closely monitored by the personnel who enter the recently vacated classrooms to disinfect everything inside. ”

As with many locations across the country, there is no official start date for the 2020-2021 school year and summer time ends.

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