The so-called “public school system” idea is a waste of time and money. It always starts out with great intentions on the part of all (except for maybe one or two snakey individuals) but then once you see it in full flower, it’s never good for students, parents, or teachers - or all those people who don’t have kids but still have to pay for other people’s kids to be educated, and that poorly, anyway.
If public funding is spent on education, parents should be the first in line to say how it should be spent, but the taxpayers should be next. The taxpayers should not pay for giant armies of these “teachers” to be allowed positions of control over children.
My mom and dad taught me how to read - school was something that just added to this a bit, but reading was really what opened up the world to me. I had a library card before I was four years old. School I always hated, mostly because I hated being away from my home and mom (and dog; I was just thinking about him today). The DOE is the most egregious waste of taxpayer money that ever was. Name a worse one. End the DOE.
It is not social distancing nor the reduced time with other persons, that is hurting the kids. It is the talk of fear, the hiding of the face, the isolation of the vax and nonvax that is hurting all persons.