District Administration – Matt Zalaznick
As coronavirus concerns convinced more superintendents to close more schools Wednesday, school lunch and student safety issues had experts debating the best response. “Closing the schools before anyone in the schools is sick is a very difficult thing to do, even though it’s probably extremely beneficial and much wiser,” Nicholas Christakis, a Yale University sociologist and physician, told NPR on Wednesday. But other experts interviewed by NPR cautioned that closing schools may have little impact because COVID-19 hasn’t been making students particularly ill. Also, many of those students rely on schools for meals, a safe environment and other necessities.
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