WHYY By Desks are spaced apart in Samantha Rutherford's classroom. (Courtesy of Samantha Rutherford) Jerry Logan, 68, can’t afford not to be serious about COVID-19 safety. He’s a single father of two school-aged children and takes care of his 93-year-old mother at their North Philadelphia home. “We can’t afford for her to get sick,” he said. Weighing the risks, though, he couldn’t justify keeping his children in full-time virtual school. “They’ve got to make up some of this time. They’ve been out of school almost a whole year.” So although Logan has lost friends and distant family members to the virus, he opted for his kids to return to in-person school at Kenderton Elementary for two days a week starting today.