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Me about going back to school as numbers continue to rise covid wise across the state of texas. take a listen. >> she's feeling good. how are you feeling? excited? mommy is nervous but excited. we're in a whole different world. there are a lot of things to weigh. we're going to see how it goes. we're going to stay positive. >> reporter: here at parker elementary in houston, it is masks on for students and staff. they had a nice, long line outside the building doing temperature checks on those who walked in. that will be the plan going forward. i spoke to parents, asked if they feel like this i...

Entire story. if you have a heart attack in eastern kentucky or have a mild injury or elective surgery as we heard from the guests on the panel, it is likely to be delayed, you're likely to be sent home. that's the reality on the ground. >> the domino effect of the unvaccinated. you're in houston where students are going back to school today. what's the plan to keep kids safe? >> reporter: chris, that's the question that parents are asking themselves as we consider back and forth between school districts and governor of texas who is standing by a ban on mask mandates. that said, last week texa...

Checking is always a good thing. >> our program includes field schools and full-on missions. in order to document, we have to teach disciplines how that is done. the first day of training is in a classroom learning how to document chip bricks underwater. learning mapping which is the type of documenting that we're doing, teaching people how to parse the wreck and then how to document items of interest so that we can identify it. then we take the participants to the next stage which would be outside and we set up a mock wreck to give them situational awareness of what it is they're going to be ...

Decide. there are many states in this country who are saying you can't mandate wearing a mask. seven of them at this point that we can count by cnn ease terms and honestly, t really been spurred by parents going to school board meetings, protesting in the streets that their schools, government officials, shouldn't be mandating if their kids, teachers, administrators are wearing masks in the classroom. and then there are different districts like what we're seeing here in new york city, the biggest school district in the sp entire country that says every student is going to wear a mask. and the ...

Now, they are taking it on because they have seen it at the school down the road or online, they see how online learning can help you retain information in your memory a lot longer than in classroom learning. we still have challenges, as you say. we still have countries teaching drawing lockdown using television rather than new technologies. we have also got those using online virtual technology, but simply digitising what they did manually before, not using new technologies in teaching and learning to actually transform the process. there is a long way to go to get this all of the place, glob...