August 25, 2020
COVID-19 and schools reopening: Now is the time to embrace outdoor education
Author: Jennifer Davis
Whether and how schools will reopen in September given COVID-19 has been discussed in news and social media throughout the summer. Smaller class sizes, alternating attendance patterns, face-to-face or online instruction and equipment such as mandatory masks have been debated by both politicians and the public.
But there is another, more obvious answer that allows for social distancing and addresses the risks of transmitting COVID-19 indoors.
Moving classes outside deserves serious consideration