South Africa: Schools Cannot Simply Be Either Open or Closed - We Have to Be Flexible

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Opening a particular school is not an on-off switch. We need to expect that and plan for when people in our school community will contract the virus. And when that happens, those adults and children need to be supported.

In the past week, I have been thinking a lot about trust: How it is formed, how it is maintained, how it is broken? Where and how is trust made visible? At what points, in which levels of society and between which institutions and the individuals that make up these structures can we strengthen trust?

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