Superintendent has not given specific details about where the danger lies
Justin Murphy – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle USA TODAY NETWORK – in the D&C on 11/9/2020
Students in New York City, the largest school district in the country, have been attending school in person since September, along with their peers in hundreds of smaller districts. In October, Syracuse and Yonkers reopened their doors as well.
Why not Rochester?
Early research shows that schoolhouse transmission of COVID-19 has been minimal. The odds would be even better in Rochester, it seems, since the metropolitan area is one of the safest in the nation in terms of the coronavirus.
Yet Superintendent Lesli Myers-Small announced recently that nearly all Rochester City School District students will remain home until February at the soonest. Only about 800 of the most vulnerable students with disabilities will have the choice of returning to school four days a week beginning Jan. 4.