Will ‘healthy’ schools be traumatic?

August is usually when we try to get one final vacation in, find fun ways to beat the heat, and take our last licks of summer. But this year, August is different.

For those of us who have school-aged children, the potential return to class hangs over us; we count down the hours before the realities of a viral pandemic test us where it matters most.

The month feels both too long and too short — at once a giant chasm of unknowns during which everything can change, and an...