![]() More broadly, without in-person school, parents can’t effectively return to work, and the economy will suffer.īut public health officials have also said that schools should reopen only when COVID-19 cases are declining. School employees are also mandated reporters of abuse and neglect and, from March until June with school and many summer programs closed, there were nearly 40 percent fewer calls to Arkansas’s child maltreatment hotline than the same period last year. Research shows that school is essential to children’s social and emotional development. Many children rely on school for breakfast and lunch 60 percent of Arkansas students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Health and policy experts generally make the same case to reopen schools: Kids learn better in person, and further time outside of the classroom will widen the equity gap. ![]() Others, whose jobs don’t allow them the flexibility to work remotely and oversee school work, will send their kids back to school in masks to teachers who will spend much of their day keeping students as far apart from one another as possible. Many parents with health and safety concerns, like the Browns in Jonesboro, will keep their children at home to receive remote, online learning. But even at this late date, what school amid COVID-19 will look like remains sketchy and fraught. Governor Hutchinson has decreed that public school in Arkansas for some 480,000 students and 70,000 teachers and other staff will begin the week of Aug. ![]() “It was a stark reminder of what we’re doing.” “I love the smell of the pencils, crayons, the paper and all that,” Addison-Brown said. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, her son, Isaac Brown, will stay at home at least for the first semester of the school year and enter fourth grade in the Jonesboro Public Schools Virtual Academy. In July, Kristin Addison-Brown walked by the school supply aisle in Walmart in Jonesboro and had to fight back tears. Brian Chilson LEARNING REMOTELY: Kristin Addison-Brown decided to keep her son, Isaac, home this semester over health concerns.
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