What was wrong with old guidelines? Not much talk about that. Here is the beginning of NPR’s report.
The Centers for Disease Control and Preventionreleased on Friday its much-anticipated, updated guidanceto help school leaders decide how to safely bring students back into classrooms, or keep them there.
Rather than a political push to reopen schools, the update is a measured, data-driven effort to expand on old recommendations and advise school leaders on how to “layer” the most effective safety precautions: masking, physical distancing, hand-washing and respiratory etiquette, ventilation and building cleaning, and contact tracing.
For politicians, parents and school leaders looking for a clear green light to reopen schools, this is not it.
“CDC is not mandating that schools reopen,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Friday on a phone briefing with reporters. (continued)
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Citizen Tom 
Tom,
Why don’t legislators and school officials just pick up the phone and call the local private schools and ask them what they have been doing fo rthe last five months to allow thier students to return to school.
Sad
Regards and goodwill blogging
@Scatterwisdom
They are afraid.