The Guardian – Emma Brockes
“We lined up outside the school, six feet apart – a distance that shrank to zero when the five-year-olds saw each other – and waited to have our temperatures taken. No parents were allowed inside the gates, so after the checks were done and health forms submitted, the kids entered the playground alone. There they stood, on appropriately spaced dots and in pod-classes of no more than 10 children, waiting to file into the building. Two weeks into the academic year New York, alone among the big US cities, was welcoming children back to school for the first time in six months.” (more)