Is safety taking a back seat to economics?

As they gather to make a decision on Oconee schools, the county trustees are likely to go into tonight’s meeting with a variety of feedback from the citizenry.  One feedback is a letter from the daughter of a Seneca teacher that questions whether a decision to re-start classroom teaching is more about economics than safety.  Her letter starts this way:  “My father is a teacher, a Middle School teacher.  He absolutely loves teaching the kids and has gone out of his way, over the last few months to reach kids through the internet and other means.  However, in a few short weeks you are asking him to return to a classroom in a state that has expanding cases of COVID-19.  I’m afraid for his life and I’m afraid for mine.”