12 inconvenient truths about schools and kids that should be considered before reopening — from a teacher - The Washington Post

As other countries reopen their schools or are well on their way to doing so, school districts in the United States are still putting together their plans for the 2020-21 school year, which is supposed to start next month in many parts of the country.

Here is a new piece on the subject, this by New Jersey educator Mark Weber, who looks at a dozen “inconvenient truths” about how schools work that policymakers should consider when developing reopening plans.

Let's face it: The new school will be more difficult than the last.

I’ll be the first to say (along with others) that more funding is absolutely required if we’re going to have any chance of reopening schools.

But even if schools get all of the money they need, and staff show remarkable ingenuity and creativity, there are some basic, inconvenient truths we need to face about how schools work before we claim we can reopen safely this fall.

I'm having a very hard time believing many of the authors of the school reopening plans I see being bandied about believe for a second what they're proposing is in any way possible, let alone feasible?