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One example I know of is school meals for low income students.

My brother, a teacher, was telling me about socialization and brain development in adolescents. There is a definite impact that we have very little understanding of.

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We don’t need to reopen schools to solve the meal problem. My school district kept providing meals even after the school itself was closed.

Same, I haven't seen a single instance in real life where the system hasn't kept providing meals.

and exposing those folks to similar risk levels as if the schools had not closed int he first place.

No-contact pickup works for school-provided meals, too

Not at all... Depending on the setting the meals are either picked up at the school, or dropped off at the student's home. Both are generally easy to arrange in a "no contact" way. It's not like they are inviting the students into the cafeteria for one big group meal.

No, only the poor people.

My district still has free meals every weekday, and has continued its "backpack" program where students take home meals for weekends.

Why does it seem like everyone assumes you can only socialize in school? I don't think homeschooled kids are particularly deficient in this regard either.

That's highly dependent on the parents. A lot of homeschooled kids end up normal, but the stereotype of homeshooled kids not knowing how to behave in a social setting exists for a reason. It'll be even worse in the current situation where you have parents that are working full time and don't have time to also organize social activities like the parents who intentionally did homeschooling.

There's actually a very common joke in the homeschool community: "Sometimes I worry my child is missing out on socializing in school, so once in a while I beat them up and steal their lunch money".

People aren't allowed to socialize anywhere anymore. School would enable one partially.

Can you point me to where Robert Redfield mentioned it?

In my earlier comment I asked about his reasoning.

I don't know about Redfield, but Fauci has gone on the record on this particular subject in his recent interviews.

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