Which is a good enough reason to keep them closed to me. Teaching isn’t meant to be a life endangering job.

But studies, so far, have shown that pre-school and elementary school kids aren’t spreading it to each other in a significant way. When young kids that are in school catch the disease, it’s overwhelmingly from the people they live with.

We have the luxury of keeping ours at home and socially distancing in general until the vaccine hits but the push to open the schools up (and therefore everything else ) is going to be very strong by spring so we’re starting to think about what our strategy will be.