For California students, a normal-ish return to school this fall amid COVID case surge
COVID is still everywhere it seems, but the back-to-school routine will be as close to “normal” as most students have seen since the start of the pandemic.
“It’s kind of returning to the old adage of when you’re sick, stay home and when you’re better, come back,” said Megan Bacigalupi, of Oakland, who heads the CA Parent Power advocacy group that pushed for schools to reopen and allow families choices on COVID protection. “We need to give kids the normalcy in 2019 that they had back.”
“She will mask up,” Rao said, “but it is a little bit concerning given that a lot of people will have traveled.” San Diego Unified, for one, adopted a policy in May in which masks would be required indoors at school when the county’s positive case rate and hospitalizations put it in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s high community risk level, as the health agency recommends. The county hit that level last month and remains there. The district required masks for summer school last month and hasn’t yet decided whether they will be required when classes resume Aug. 29.
Gov. Newsom has credited the state’s policies with saving lives from COVID. But it’s widely acknowledged that prolonged school closures hampered kids’ education and that they have suffered mentally and emotionally from isolation and stress.
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