Parents aren’t just anxious about sending their children back to school as the delta variant rages.
They’re so worried about their kids’ health and the safety of their communities that many parents — especially Black and Hispanic parents — now say they’d rather keep them home learning remotely, at least part time, new research finds.
The survey, which was funded by the CDC through the Atlanta-based nonprofit CDC Foundation and polled a sample of 1,448 public school parents and guardians from July 23 to Aug. 8, captured the spike in their concerns after the CDC updated its guidance on July 27 due to the delta variant.
Before July 27, 58 percent of those surveyed said they wanted their children in a classroom full time this year.
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Afterward, that figure dropped to 43 percent.
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