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Return-to-school rules appear onerous and more letters to the editors

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Return-to-school rules appear onerous

My family recently received an email from my school stating that if the COVID-19 pandemic has yet to conclude by the time the new school year starts, then we will have to wear school-distributed masks while on campus, eat lunch outside the student center as opposed to in the cafeteria, desks will need to be cleaned between classes, and we must log our temperatures every morning, among other things.

I think that this is a lot more trouble than it’s worth. Since online classes have been working pretty well up to the end of the school year, I don’t see why we must trouble ourselves with returning to physical classes while the pandemic is still happening.

In my opinion, if it isn’t safe to return to school normally, then it’s not safe to return at all. What do you think?

John Butler III