Re-Opening Schools Safely: The Case for Collaboration, Constructive Disruption of Pre-COVID Expectations, and Creative Solutions

In the US, 40% of families have school-aged children and in more than 90% of these households, at least one parent is employed outside the home. Schools play an important role in these working families.1 Yet schools have been closed for approximately 2 months in an effort to curb the COVID-19 pandemic and closing has had a profound influence on family health and wellbeing. When and how should they reopen? We approach these questions with limited data and past epidemics provide little guidance for COVID-19.

Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - May 19, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Dan M. Cooper, Lisa Guay-Woodford, Bruce R. Blazar, Scott Bowman, Carrie L. Byington, Jeffrey Dome, Donald Forthal, Michael W. Konstan, Nathan Kuppermann, Robert I. Liem, Eduardo R. Ochoa, Brad H. Pollock, Olga Acosta Price, Bonnie W. Ramsey, Lainie Fried Tags: Commentary Source Type: research