This situation has been taxing on everyone. Even homes with both parents present are struggling. Those homes that have one parent often gone, both parents working, and single-parents who have to support their whole family are all facing even more difficult challenges. One thing that our situation is making clear is that our school systems are a major element in many parts of the lives of all American families.
I cannot help but wonder, why aren't they treated that way? Nearly my entire educational career has seen year after year of educational funding that is lower than the inflation rate, entirely flat (and thus even farther from the inflation rate), and even defunded (thanks, former Governor Snyder). Meanwhile, more and more services have been demanded of it, while teachers and staff have been vilified and forced to watch as their benefits and pensions have been stripped while their pay has been falling in comparison to jobs which require similar levels of education and training.
Even now, when it's clear how needed our schools are, people are ranting about wanting to defund or dismantle them even more. The current Secretary of Education has used this crisis as justification of her claims that public education is a "failed experiment." While the teachers I know have been dealing with stresses beyond anything I have seen in over two decades of an educator, people are making claims that they are lazy and not doing their jobs.
Thus one of my biggest concerns about not having kids in school right now is that morons will use this as an excuse to further defund and dismantle rather than to realize that a major issue is that education is currently underfunded and understaffed. These troglodytes are a danger not only to education now, but to the future of our educational institutions. Ironically, they are usually the ones most loudly complaining about their kids not being in school.