About to be another super great week tearing one another to shreds about whether and how to open schools this fall. Just remember...

Wherever you are on fall schooling, remember that it's a terrible, painful debate *BECAUSE* the administration (and a pile of Sun Belt governors) failed to respond honestly, quickly, and comprehensively to the pandemic.

Whatever you want to do this fall (fully in-person, hybrid/partial, fully online, etc) with schools is a bad option. No one has a good idea.

But that's not because any of us are dumb. It's because we're in a crisis that our leaders converted into a catastrophy.

There isn't some magic "this is the right way to do fall schooling" answer lurking behind the online skirmishing between tired, anxious people. There are just a variety of flavors of disaster.

Personally, I think our current trajectory is closer to collapsing our health care system than to flattening the curve, so I'm skeptical that we can open schools safely for anyone in most places. But the second part of that sentence shouldn't blind anyone to the first.

Basically: all our ideas are bad, but it's not *our* fault. We're sifting through the rubble.