School debate rages on, despite CDC effort to set federal benchmarks
Posted on AllSides February 18th, 2021
From The Left
Since late fall, 60,000 students and teachers across Greenville County, South Carolina, have been filing into the classroom for school the old-fashioned way: in-person, five days a week.
They've done it, Greenville superintendent Burke Royster said, by enforcing mask wearing, hand washing and social distancing -- mostly by about 3 feet with plexiglass barriers when 6 feet isn't possible -- using high-quality ventilation and launching their own contact-tracing program.
Royster said he believes his schools have lower transmission than its surrounding community -- a finding that is supported by research....