#MakeSchoolsSafe (Image via Twitter courtesy of @NEUnion) EAST SUSSEX, U.K.—Leave it to educators and support staff to know what’s best for students in and out of the classroom as Covid-19’s global infection rate seeps into the new year. No, it shouldn’t come as a surprise, rather as further proof that frontline workers know best—they live within crisis daily. As news broke before and during the holiday season of a new variant strain of the coronavirus, and a steady uptick of cases soon followed, government officials, including U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, insisted schools were safe and should reopen on schedule Monday, January 4.