I would go along with that statement last year.
but schools are shutting down due to Covid cases right now.
School closings tracker: Where districts are shutting down again due to COVID-19 outbreaks Administrators are seeing much more in-school transmission this year By: Matt Zalaznick | September 7, 2021
https://districtadministration.com/school-closings-tracker-where-covid-shut-down-schools-again/
One big difference administrators are seeing during the latest COVID surge is a significant increase of in-school transmission of COVID, particularly where districts have reopened without masking or social distancing. In-school transmission rates were low to non-existent during 2020-21 when most schools were taken aggressive safety precautions.
In some places, schools are shifting back to online and remote learning. Elsewhere, such as in Texas, districts have shut down completely because schools are not required to make up days missed due to COVID.
The biggest impacts, so far, have been in the Deep South. Here’s an overview of current COVID school and district closures:
ALABAMA: Montgomery Public Schools closed seven buildings, including a high school and several middles schools, until mid-Sepetember.
Five out of 29 schools in the Cullman County district have shifted to remote learning with more than one-third of students absent due to positive COVID tests or quarantines after having been a close contact. Students are expected to return on Sept. 10. Masks will be required in schools when absences reach 15%,
CALIFORNIA: Most students in the Lassen Union High School District will shift to distance learning until Sept. 13.
Red Bluff Union Elementary School District in Northern California has closed all four of its schools until Sept. 13 due to rising numbers of quarantines.
GEORGIA: Griffin-Spalding County School System closed all of its buildings until at least Sept. 13 after a third transportation employee died of COVID in two weeks.
The Richmond County School System will close on Sept. 8 and 9 “to prioritize cleaning, disinfecting, and replenishing COVID-19 mitigation supplies,” the district announced on Facebook.
Burke County Public Schools, which reported 40 new student cases of COVID, has also shut down for the next two weeks.
Ben Hill County Schools will be virtual this week due to “a large increase in the number of students that are either positive or being quarantined for COVID-19 at all schools,” Superintendent J. Shawn Haralson said in a letter to the community.
IDAHO: Payette High School in Payette Public Schools is closed until Sept. 13.
INDIANA: MSD of Shakamak is closed until Sept. 14 due to multiple COVID exposures, the district announced on Facebook.
KENTUCKY: Harrison County Schools and Ashland Independent Schools are both closed until Sept. 13 due to rising case numbers.
MASSACHUSETTS: Farmington River Elementary School, a one-school district in western Massachusetts, closed Sept. 3 after students and staff tested positive, and administrators awaited results of other tests, MassLive.com reported.
MONTANA: Chester-Joplin-Inverness Public Schools delayed the first day of school from Aug. 26 to Aug. 31 after a teacher tested positive at a training day, KXLF.com reported.
NORTH CAROLINA: Iredell-Statesville Schools has closed five of its schools until Sept. 10.
OKLAHOMA: Tulsa Public Schools closed a high school/middle school on building on Sept. 7 due to staff absences.
OREGON: A handful of districts have delayed the first day of school due to surging COVID cases. The Nestucca Valley School District will start the school year in “comprehensive distance learning.”
Neah Kah Nie School District #56 moved the first day of school from Sept. 7 to Sept. 13.
Clatskanie, Alsea and Culver school districts have also delayed the start of school, KOIN.com reported.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Laurens County School District 55 is moving three schools to remote learning from Sept. 3 to Sept. 9, due to positive COVID cases and quarantines.
TENNESSEE: The Grundy County School District is closed until Sept. 13 due to increased COVID cases in the community.
Marion County Schools are shut down until Sept. 13 “for intensive cleaning and COVID-19 numbers,” the district announced. Sumner County Schools are also closed until Sept. 13.
Union County Public Schools will be closed until Sept. 10.
TEXAS: Burnet Consolidated ISD is closed until Sept. 9: “COVID-19 cases have continued to spike in Burnet county. In addition to low student attendance rates at all campuses, we are experiencing a large number of staff absences,” the district said on its website. “Our hope is that by being intentional with these two days, we can make plans to re-open with adequate student supervision across all campuses.”
VIRGINIA: Amherst County Public Schools has shut down until Sept. 13 due to a COVID outbreak. Administrators will use inclement weather days. so there will be no remote instruction.
WEST VIRGINIA: Five schools in the Raleigh County School District are closed until Sept. 8 due to COVID outbreaks and quarantines, The Register-Herald reported.
Recreating dummies for the future, while Asian schools are open and have been.
How many deaths?
Thanks for this info. One thing to watch for is the definition of “quarantines”—in CA, the minute a negative test is produced after a “masked exposure” the “quarantine” ends. Hence now a big shortage of rapid antigen screening. Kids (asymptomatic) lucky enough to have those right on campus only miss 10 minutes of class for a very brief “quarantine.” I think overreactions abound. At Cal State Chico, nearly every student is vaxxed and masked, but Butte county has rising cases. Nevertheless only 78 student cases now out of 15,000. And people are freaking out and some heading back to subpar remote classes there while both the cases and effect of the virus for all involved (mostly 20 year olds) is statistically zero.