Open or Close

 

(Personal opinion - have not cross checked this with actual data)

The last school year started after the first wave. 

Some places started with schools open with a virtual option, some started with a virtual only option. 

Places with schools that started virtual saw a lot of debates on the best time to open, teacher and kid vaccinations etc. Then the second wave hit and most decided to wait it out. Most ended the year with majority of kids in virtual classes. 

Places with schools that started open saw more kids return to in person classes throughout the school year, even through the second wave, and ended the year with most kids attending school. 

How things come home...

Remember all the colds we used to catch before this? It's all gone now. Looking back, there used to be only two ways something came home.

 - couple days after a trip, I start feeling something in my throat or nose, becomes a cold, everyone gets it. 

 - one of the kids fall sick first, then everyone gets it. 

No travel, no school, no colds! 

Our small school district has around 7000+ individuals including students and staff. That 7000 could go back directly to anywhere from 14,000 to 35,000 people depending on how many kids from a household are in school, how many grandparents live around here etc. And the population of our city is 40,000. That's how schools connect people!