‘ So many questions and very little answers’

For one parent, the road back to in- person school paved with uncertainty

Show us the details. That is the common refrain from teachers and parents alike to the announcement late Thursday that the state intends school to be a full- time, in- person experience this fall.

Instruction statewide went virtual in March as the world- wide COVID- 19 pandemic swept across the state.

Whether they are for or against the idea of trying return to a new, in- classroom normal for a full 180 days in the 2020- 21 school year, most who were forced to live the last three months in quarantine have questions that a one- page executive summary released Thursday fails to answer.

Unveiled by Gov. Ned Lamont and Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona, the plan calls for school to resume five days a week in the fall with no testing for the virus and no class size restrictions.

Instead the guidance is for face masks all around, social distancing by keeping classes of students together as much as possible throughout the school day and frequent cleaning of both hands and surfaces. Students may also find themselves learning and eating lunch outside, weather permitting.

Details are promised in a 50- page guide that state Department of Education officials say won’t be out until Monday.

Not good enough