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Back-to-school plans in the time of Covid-19 stress working parents

Coronavirus, and the upending of society it has produced, have caused these views of school in American life to collide in ways that have thrown millions of parental lives into disarray

Coronavirus, US coronavirus, COVID-19
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To ask a parent particularly one trying to parent alone to work full time while supervising education and daytime meals is a formula for stress and unreasonable expectations

AP | PTI Nashville
For generations, school has been an opportunity for American children to learn and make friends. For many parents today, though, it's something that's elemental in a very different way: a safe place that cares for their children while they are at work or a necessity for them to be able to work at all.

The outbreak of the coronavirus this year, and the upending of society it has produced, have caused these views of school in American life to collide in ways that have thrown millions of parental lives into disarray.

Now, President Donald Trump is demanding that schools reopen in the