Students have missed school and people are starting to wonder if one day they might all end up going virtual. Not only have COVID cases increased drastically, but it is getting dangerous due to a lack of precautions.

“Well, you know it’s kind of a twofold way of thinking because I don’t think it would be good because having gone through it for a year and a half it would be tough to go back,” Leo Mendoza a teacher and a parent said.  

Mendoza said that it would be tough for parents who go to work and cannot take care of their children at home. Although there are perks in staying home, there are experiences that happen in school.

“It would be nice not to have to wake up to take everybody to school and to be able to work from home,” he said. “But I think a superseding that is the need for the social interaction and there’s nothing like learning in the classroom, there’s no substitute.” 

It would be safer for students, but it outweighs the risk of staying home or not, the risk is low, and students are getting sick, but it does not affect them as much as adults. 

“It’s not worth it because the grades go down and everybody falls behind in school so it’s better that’s why I think it’s that students need to stay in school,” Mendoza said. 

Mendoza said the governor taking away the mandate is part of the problem.

“It’s spreading faster than when we had the mandate,” he said. “Being a teacher myself, I have students and even other teachers that walk around without masks and that’s the people that are spreading all the bacteria.”