The approach of the new school year is driving a global debate about how societies should provide for children’s education as the coronavirus pandemic continues. In most countries, majorities are not comfortable about sending their children back into in-person classrooms, even though there are concerns about remote learning and the economic impact of school closures. Many parents worry about the ability of schools to enforce social distancing among students. As with most aspects of the pandemic, the debate over school safety and reopening has become uniquely polarized along partisan lines in the US.
This edition of Pandemic PollWatch summarizes global polling on attitudes toward school reopening, and also examines the role of the coronavirus pandemic has had in a series of recent elections, with a particular focus on the July 5 election in the Dominican Republic. CONT.
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