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Short Wave

The Science Is Simple, So Why Is Opening Schools So Complicated?

Short Wave

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4.76K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

School districts, parents and teachers are all facing big decisions about how to return to the classroom this fall. NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey and education correspondent Cory Turner join Geoff Brumfiel to discuss what the science says about kids and COVID-19, what schools are doing to try to keep students and teachers safe and why there are so many differing approaches in school districts around the U.S.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.

0:05.6

Jeff Brumfuel here, filling in for Maddie.

0:07.9

And today I'm joined by two of my favorite colleagues, Health Correspondent Alison Aubrey.

0:11.9

Hey there Jeff.

0:13.0

Hi there.

0:14.0

And Education Correspondent Corey Turner.

0:16.6

You're one of my favorites too Jeff.

0:18.6

Teachers Pat, I love it.

0:20.4

Now, all three of us have something in common, which is that we are parents.

0:26.6

So we're all facing this huge dilemma around schools.

0:29.6

Do we send our kids back in the middle of a pandemic?

0:33.1

Or do we try to teach them in front of a screen at the kitchen table?

0:37.8

It seems like my family's plans are changing pretty much every day.

0:41.8

What about you guys?

0:42.8

What's going on?

0:43.8

What are your plans?

0:44.8

Yeah, I mean my kids are, my kids are virtual until 2021 because our school district

0:50.0

has said they are going to be remote only for everyone, which means I will be working

0:55.2

in my basement until 2021.

0:59.0

My son's high school was going to try the hybrid thing.

1:01.9

Now they're opening 100% virtual.

1:04.1

My daughter's school is 100% virtual.

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