Sending the kids back to school in a pandemic has a lot of moving parts.
1) are cases low in your area?
2) is there a coherent plan for school including things like cohorting and masks? (rapid coordinated frequent testing available would be ideal)

3) do your kids want to go back/are they anxious about getting sick or you getting sick to the point it might interfere with their functioning at school?
4) any high risk folks in the household?
5) do you have a public-facing job with exposure to vulnerable populations?

6) do you have an option to keep the kids home and participate in online school or (for those with the means) perhaps a tutor or neighborhood tutor cohort?

Since many of these questions are not under people’s control it’s causing a great deal of anxiety around here anyway, though most parents want or need their kids to go back if they can.

I’m sending mine though we will likely drive them (and have the means/availability to do so)

Since they already had COVID my kids are probably less anxious about it than many, though already having it doesn’t necessarily mean they can’t get it again, it’s not an unknown scary entity to them.

Hard to be judgy about anyone sending or not sending their kids because so much of the decision is out of individual control.

None of this is a massive truth bomb, just trying to lay it out systematically.

I’ve seen families also have to make difficult decisions...separating a health care worker from the rest during a spike, or having kids isolate from elders in the household after travel. Possible for 14 days to a few months but hard to see this continue for a school year.