I hate to break it to you, but that is a NATURAL cycle. That is how we, as a SPECIES, get immunity to practically everything. If kids are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms, what is the problem? I'm not making this up - there is no data to support closing the schools. Open the schools and nearly every kid will have been exposed and will have immunity within a month - sounds like a win to me. Oh, I hear you, they can't go see their grandparents. My kids haven't seen their grandparents since this started, and my parents live 5 miles away. Protect the vulnerable and get on with life or they will NEVER see their grandparents.
One other thing to think about - all signs point to this thing hitting the US far earlier than March when we shut everything down. We highly suspect my kids' school had it roll through in December. Yes, schools are notorious for spreading disease, and there's a really good chance they already have.
If you read my post correctly, you should have seen where I stated that many of our students live in multigenerational homes. That means grandparents are living in the homes with the students. Also, we have several students in our district who are being raised by grandparents, aunts/uncles, and I even have a few who are being raised by great-grandparents.
In my school alone, we've already had 3 students lose their both grandparents and in one of the cases, great grandparents from the virus. These grandparents were raising their grandchildren and now have no one.
Next you have the parents who then get the virus from their children. These parents then spread it at work. To the elderly. Oh wait, who cares. They're already old.
But not only the elderly are dying from this. We have a family friend who was 59 and no health risks catch the virus. It caused him to have a stroke. Then he got pneumonia and had to be put on a ventilator. His arm had to be amputated. Then his kidneys failed and he went on life support where his 89-year-old mother had to make the decision to take him off the life support.
The DH of a former student in his early 30s was on a ventilator for 3 weeks.
Another good friend who is a teacher got it 3 weeks after we closed schools and had only left the house to go to the grocery store. She was hospitalized with pneumonia. For 3 weeks her temp never went below 101 WITH Tylenol.
We're collecting Chromebooks this week from our students. Yesterday a lady came through the line asking if she can pick up her nephews' locker contents despite not being able to return their Chromebooks. She is the only one in the family not quarantined as all of them, including her nephews who are 5th, 7th, and 8th grade, that does not have the virus. The 8th grader has pneumonia.
Basically what I'm saying is kids not only get the virus but the give the virus to those they live with who then spread it around more. Unfortunately it's the gift that keeps on giving. That is why school were closed so fast.
I meant kids going to school, teachers teaching from home. Have you seen this option discussed anywhere? I haven't. Maybe have the teachers teach remotely to a classroom managed by a TA in PPE? Again, I've yet to see this option even suggested. I've seen remote learning for all kids (pretty big failure in our experience) or all sorts of social distancing ideas for teachers and kids in school. Kids staying 6 feet apart and not touching anything? I agree, that's pretty unrealistic. I would argue, also unnecessary, kids aren't getting sick. If it's the teachers you are concerned about, that's another story.
You must have a certified teacher in the classroom at all times. While a para in my state can be used in an emergency, a licensed teacher must be available to help in the room next door. It's called the law. Also, districts are not going to hire a "TA" to watch a classroom so a teacher can work from home. They can't afford to do that.
Let the professionals decide what's going to happen after they are given directions from the governors.