Why not go full Taliban and require burkas? Not to give anyone any ideas.

By Blake Farmer, National Public Radio

The teachers at New Hope Academy in Franklin, Tenn., were chatting the other day. The private Christian school has met in person throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic — requiring masks and trying to keep kids apart, to the degree it is possible with young children. And Nicole Grayson, who teaches fourth grade, says they realized something peculiar.

“We don’t know anybody that has gotten the flu,” she says. “I don’t know of a student that has gotten strep throat.”

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