For parents, it is not safe enough to send kids to school. Despite the fact that the article has attempted to be neutral in presenting the statistics, this recommendation was reached on two grounds. First, the article reports that children and teenagers have increasingly been infected by a coronavirus. Additionally, studies that have found children to carry more than the average amounts of virus in their airways, even when not symptomatic, suggests that the virus could spread further than before. It is also true that there are no definitive answers, and one needs to look at the whole body of evidence before making a conclusion. However, the pertinent facts here are that children and teenagers are highly vulnerable to infection or even carriers for the virus. Even in the best-case scenario where the children are strictly monitored while in class, the risks would still outweigh the benefits.
Secondly, assuming that it is safe to send kids to school with the hybrid model that is to be implemented in New York, there are some logistic difficulties to be resolved. For instance, if the new classroom model will only hold nine or ten children at a time, the model has yet to explain how attending students will be selected, assuming over half of the parents send their kids to school. Kids could be attending by alternating in-person and online classes, but there is still the problem of inherent inequalities that could result. It would be unfair to some children if their parents are more cautious and keep them learning from home (not saying that the parents who sent their kids to school are less cautious). Until these two issues are resolved, it is yet safe to send kids to school, regardless of the impartiality of the article.
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