The Remote-Option Divide
As schools push ahead with plans to hold classes in person, only some parents are going to have a choice as to whether to keep their kids home.
On August 9, faculty and administrators in the Clark County School District—which serves Las Vegas and surrounding areas—welcomed students back to classrooms for full-time in-person instruction. And, at the beginning, leaders of the nation’s fifth-largest school district were cautiously optimistic; aside from difficulty with air-conditioning in some buildings, the first day went off without issue.
Eight days after classes began, though, there was already a coronavirus outbreak. An elementary school in the district was forced to switch to virtual learning for at least two weeks because of an unknown number of cases that necessitated testing all of the potentially exposed students, faculty, and staff.
The situation playing out in Clark County
