One day - hopefully soon - the well-meaning American left will discover how tortured their logic is to view public school closures as some sort of equity issue.

COVID affects minorities and poorer individuals disproportionately because everything does. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/research-ties-economic-inequality-to-gap-in-life-expectancy/2013/03/10/c7a323c4-7094-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_story.html
Research ties economic inequality to gap in life expectancy

Gains in life expectancy going mainly to the affluent, complicating the debate over the retirement age

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/research-ties-economic-inequality-to-gap-in-life-expectancy/2013/03/10/c7a323c4-7094-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_story.html
Rather than acknowledging this as an extension of a structural life expectancy gap in America, school board members have opted to preach equity while simultaneously exacerbating the underlying problems (poverty, quality of education, access to care). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27063997/ 
The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014 - PubMed

In the United States between 2001 and 2014, higher income was associated with greater longevity, and differences in life expectancy across income groups increased over time. However, the association...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27063997/
School closures do nothing to amend this gap, because it's a societal problem, not a COVID problem. Data from several studies show that teachers and students attending in-person schools have *lower* infection rates than those learning virtually.
School closures do nothing to amend this gap, because it's a societal problem, not a COVID problem. Data from several studies show that teachers and students attending in-person schools have *lower* infection rates than those learning virtually.
School closures do nothing to amend this gap, because it's a societal problem, not a COVID problem. Data from several studies show that teachers and students attending in-person schools have *lower* infection rates than those learning virtually.
School closures accomplish one thing: They permit school boards and administrators to absolve themselves of any blame associated with COVID infections.

Inequities exist. COVID highlights them; it does not cause them.

Board members know this. What they're doing is disgraceful.
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