Both the argument and the process for re-opening schools are multi-faceted and they cross a range of development stages. Childhood trauma damage looms in all directions. The historic decisions should be based on science and data, addressing the many complex and competing risks.
Stunningly, to-date, the lack of a coordinated national response to Covid-19 in the U.S. has created broad inefficiency, maybe most notably in the “absent” plan for population-testing for the virus. That same laissez-faire approach to a national attack now threatens to disregard the growing data about the nation-wide dangers and trauma-inducing experiences of when and how to re-open schools.
School re-opening guidelines should be developed by experts, trauma-informed experts, across an array of domains to avoid the risks of limited, “functional silo” perspective fueling “solutions” for one “silo” which create more risk in other “silos”. The weighty, strategic decisions and their implementation approaches would be tackled most effectively with a multi-faceted team of national, or even international, authorities on the competing dangers, in open discussions and planning, as a cohesive group.
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