Nobody is suggesting the end of classroom education. The question is whether doing the best we can with distance learning for a time and postponement of classroom eduction until better treatments and/or vaccines come on line is a better choice. It is really not a big sacrifice to ensure the safety of about 4 million teachers and maybe another million or two staff persons.
Assuming the death rate is optimistically only 0.2%, that is about 12,000 teachers and staff deaths. Ignoring the thousands of other deaths originating from these cases, are you really saying that 12,000 deaths is a realistic price to pay so your child can go back into the classroom NOW rather than next year? Really?
The fact that this would be a very bad choice seems an "obvious fact and not open for debate."
Unless most of your teachers are living in nursing homes, your numbers are way off.
Similarly, whatever factor you apply to count deaths, you can only count deaths above the baseline when considering the change in school policy.
It’s quite far from your side of “obvious fact and not open for debate”, IMO.
Not with that attitude, nope sure isn’t.
It is up for debate. I know for a fact you’re wrong. I was educated outside of any schooling system until the 9th grade. I learned basic math and was a voracious reader. I walked into 9th grade without missing a beat.