Plenty of folks have thoughts about the conditions under which schools should be opened. The CDC thinks desks should be six feet apart. The American Enterprise Institute suggests that districts might want to get all staff members over fifty-five to take early retirement. Senator Bill Cassidy has called for aggressive testing and contact tracing.

Over the next few months, we’ll see many plans floated for opening schools in the fall. The successful ones will have one thing in common.

They will be written—or at least co-written—by teachers.

Reopening schools will be the ultimate exercise in devil-concealing detail work. A recommendation like “put all student desks at least six feet apart” is easy to make, but it will take the people who actually know the configurations of rooms in the building to turn it into a workable plan

The plans will hinge on nitty-gritty details, not sweeping policy ideas.

Source: CURMUDGUCATION: Successful School Reopening Plans Will Have One Thing In Common