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A public health expert who spent two decades studying pandemic preparedness. A mother who makes DoorDash deliveries to scrape together extra money for her son s learning pod. A single-parent who worries no one can help care for her son if she becomes sick with COVID-19.
They all faced, in recent weeks and months, one of the most fraught questions confronting parents during the pandemic: should they send their children back to school for in-person learning, or not?
D.C. Public Schools started returning thousands of students to face to face instruction for the first time in nearly a year on Tuesday. The return, months in the making, has been beset with criticism from some teachers, families and education advocates who argue it is unsafe to return students to classrooms during the coronavirus pandemic.
Washington D.C. public schools begin in-person instruction as Virginia teachers resist return
Public school teachers in Washington D.C. have been ordered back to in-person classes this week after an arbitration court on Saturday ruled against a last-minute complaint filed by the teachers union.
On Sunday, a major snowstorm forced the city to backtrack on its plans for Monday in-person classes. With consummate cynicism, Democratic Mayor Muriel E. Bowser resisted canceling classes until the last moment, even as the city declared a citywide emergency, which will last until Tuesday. Students and teachers have been told to be in class Tuesday.