A CDC survey has found that most parents do not want their kids going back to school full time, all based on fears related to COVID. As a result, many families would rather that their school districts have options for virtual learning. This change in opinion comes as the Delta variant has made so many kids sick or worse since schools began to open last month. And parents fear that their children could be next.

The survey, which was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Parent Teacher Association found that as the school year ended last year, parents were becoming optimistic about their children returning to the classroom. In fact, per the survey, 58 percent of parents wanted their kids to return to classroom-based learning for the 2021 to 2022 school year.

However, after the Delta variant became a threat against those who were not and could not yet be vaccinated, many parents changed their stance on sending their kids back to school.

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Answers for the survey were collected from July 23 through August 8. And there was a definitive change in answers beginning on July 27 after the Delta mutation was named "dangerous and dominant," per WWNO.

After July 27, according to the survey, only 43 percent of parents wanted to send their kids back to in-person schooling. The rest of the participants wanted options with which to keep their kids at home because they "want them safe."

According to NBC News, as schools prepared to get back into session, remote learning was only going to be an option to just over 40 percent of the largest school districts in the nation. However, after students began to come back to school and the Delta variant caused many schools to either shut down and return to remote learning or the virus caused thousands of students to have to be quarantined. Because of this, by the beginning of September, over 90 districts had options for virtual learning. However, only 56 of those were available to all students versus those who had restrictions as to who could attend.

Just last week alone, over 200,000 pediatric cases of COVID were reported, according to ABC7. And with the numbers continuing to rise, it is no surprise that so many parents want to have options when it comes to how their children go to school during a pandemic.

The superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District, Michael Hinojosa, described what has happened with this school year as a "rollercoaster ride," according to NBC News.

"Just when we thought we might have some normalcy this year, everybody was excited about back-to-school, and it all changed. It pivoted on a dime," Hinojosa said.

What was interesting about the survey was that even though Black and Hispanic parents stated that they had the most problems with virtual learning as a result of poor connections with the internet, they were least likely to want their kids to return to school for in-person learning. Despite the connectivity issues, only 41 percent of Black parents and 37 percent of Hispanic parents want their children back in the classroom. And the reasoning given by parents, according to NBC News, is because if kids stay home "they keep their families and communities safe."

Between the fear that kids will contract COVID and have long-term symptoms to consistently having to worry that schools are going to shut down again, many parents would like to have the option of their kids remaining home for remote learning. Not only would remote learning provide structure versus not knowing what to expect daily but parents would also not have to live in fear of worst-case scenarios.

Source: NBC News, WWNO, ABC7, National PTA