Letter: Illogical leaps

Debra Sanders' "Closed schools, closed minds" column on Oct. 25 makes many illogical leaps. Students' test scores may have declined over the pandemic. However, it is very hard to measure test scores from the grave. More importantly, students are now alive and test scores should improve.

Teachers, bus drivers, parents, grandparents are alive today because transmission was slowed and vaccines were invented. The symptomatic and asymptomatic spread caused almost a million unnecessary deaths by people who believed the virus a hoax and who did not practice distancing and face protection.

To put teachers and their families at risk in close quarters at school is insane. We must not return to the Dark Ages and neglect contemporary scientific advances.

Charles Elwert

Addison