Jack Hassard has spent his career teaching science and training science teachers. He lives in Georgia, where Governor Brian Kemp is determined to open schools without regard to the state of the virus.
Hassard says, based on the science, that Georgia is not ready to open its schools.
The infection rate in Georgia is unacceptably high at 13-16%.
It is important for us to use the science to make decisions about the lives of our citizens. At this time, it is not prudent to open schools in ways that bring hundreds of students into a school building. We have seen examples of crowded high school corridors, with most students not wearing masks. This should not be tolerated.
CBS News reported:
A Georgia high school that was featured in a viral photo showing students packed tightly in a hallway has closed temporarily after nine students and staff members tested positive for the coronavirus, CBS Atlanta affiliate WGCL-TV reports. North Paulding High School in Dallas, Georgia, reopened for in-person learning August 3.
The school will be closed to in-person learning Monday and Tuesday, according to a letter sent to students’ parents and guardians on Sunday. Extracurricular activities have also been canceled for those days.
Students will be informed if they can return for in-person learning on Tuesday night, the letter stated. The letter also noted the building will be “thoroughly cleaned and disinfected” while the school is shuttered.
USA Today reported:
After only one week of school, more than 250 students and teachers from one Georgia school district will be asked to quarantine for two weeks after several teachers and students tested positive for COVID-19, according to the district’s website.
Cherokee County School District, which is just north of Atlanta, is sharing regular updates on coronavirus cases in its schools on its website.
As of Friday, at least 11 students, ranging in age from first to 12th grade, and two staff members from various elementary, middle and high schools, have tested positive for the virus, prompting the school to send almost 250 students and staff home for 14 days because of possible exposure. The students will receive online instruction during the period.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Meanwhile, here’s ed reform’s contribution to the nation’s 50 million public school students and families:
“Secretary Betsy DeVos
President DonaldTrump
and I stand with students and parents! They need real options for education this fall, tailored to meet the unique needs of each family. They need SchoolChoiceNow.”
Thousands of professional, full time public school critics who add no practical value to the vast, vast majority of students. Every public school in the country is in crisis and what are they all working on? Promoting private schools!
Irrelevant at best and harmful at worst to the vast, vast majority of students and parents and they have utterly captured education policy, to the extent where no one who supports public schools is ever heard from. Public school advocates have been deliberately excluded in a country where 90% of kids attend one. Amazing.
I am sorry for public school students. They should be in school. It’s a shame the adults in charge were too reckless and greedy to manage anything and allow that to happen.
It’s the second time some of them have gotten screwed. They bore the brunt of the Wall Street crash too. Their political leaders have served them very poorly. I hope they have the good sense to clean house and start fresh when they’re in charge. They really, really can do better than these folks.
Here’s an excellent video from Robert Reich on opening schools. He criticizes DeVos for using her office to forward her radical right wing agenda. Dizzy, deadly DeVos has no plan other than following the mandate of deadly Donny.https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=2679301322334250&ref=notif¬if_id=1597160771285360¬if_t=live_video
9:43 AM this morning:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-cases-lead-over-800-quarantinegeorgia-school-district-where-n1236364
“I think quite honestly this week went real well other than a couple of” viral photos, the governor said.
chortle
Sorry–should be a hyphen between quarantine & georgia…
Or immature…