I found last Sunday's State Journal editorial, "Fauci sends a message to schools," disingenuous and dangerous.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has spoken at length about opening schools, and the editorial only quoted part of it. The editorial board would be better served telling the community about its responsibility to our children. We are definitely at hotspot levels of infection right now. Unless the whole community follows the guidelines and gets the current outbreak under control, we cannot safely open in January.

Schools should have opened in September.

Why were they closed? Dr. Anthony Fauci and the experts should have known back in July that schools should be open. Several studies this summer and before showed that children under the age or 18 rarely get a severe case of COVID-19. Very few under the age of 18 have died have from the disease unless they have underlying health issues.

The State Journal editorial board are a bunch of ghouls.

Using Dr. Anthony Fauci's position as a justification to open schools right after the Madison School District lost a healthy young man to a COVID-related illness (a young man I had the honor of teaching) to push their agenda is really low -- even for them.

I take issue with last Sunday's State Journal editorial, "Fauci sends a message to schools," on children returning to schools.

I live in El Paso, Texas, a hotspot for COVID-19. I am also a public school speech pathologist. More than 10,000 children in our city have COVID-19. At the school that I work at, lots of children are sick with COVID-19. Does the editorial board honestly believe that using plexiglass shields and masks will keep everyone safe? Do they think the virus will only stay in the shielded area? It’s airborne.

Schools need to remain virtual. It does not add up that in-person school is OK.

We are warned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about not gathering with people outside our households for the holidays to stop the spread. And we are told that gathering indoors, even with masks on, greatly increases the potential for COVID-19 transmission. It seems preposterous to then believe that it is safe to go back to school.

Instead of making teachers the scapegoats of all the world's ills once again, maybe we should simply be honest: The federal government's egregious failure in this pandemic has left working parents with no healthy options other than forcing teachers to go back into the classroom to resume their babysitting duties.

Hammering the fact that children are far less affected when they get COVID-10 is equivalent to putting your fingers in your ears and saying, "Lalalalalalalala! I can't hear you!" about the fact that teachers will get sick and they will die from COVID-19.

I am appalled at the State Journal editorial board’s twisting of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s statements on ABC’s “This Week” and its call to open Madison’s schools by January in Sunday's editorial, "Fauci sends a message to schools."

Dr. Fauci explained that if community spread is low, if bars are closed, and if schools offer adequate protective equipment to students and staff, then schools can and should remain open. “The best way to ensure the children’s safety in school is to get the community level of spread low…,” he stated on the show.

I am grandmother to a third-grade student who is in the Sun Prairie School District.

I have him for online learning twice a week, and the other days get split up between his mom and dad. That's a total of three different households. He is a bright student, but I have witnessed a lack of motivation, restlessness, boredom and some struggles with math. He is missing the socialization school provides since online learning started for him last March.

We should wait until fall of 2021 to resume school.

The amount of cases is still on the rise now, and the future is unpredictable. Sure, the vaccines are beginning to arrive. But for all we know, the virus could mutate and suddenly invalidate all attempts at a vaccine. And if that happened while we were at school, it could be a mega-spreader.

Teachers want to be back in school, but we know teachers are not protected like they need to be. "Good enough" is not acceptable. Teachers have died.

Many adults and parents in Wisconsin at home and in their jobs (such as packing plants) can't or don't follow basic health guidelines. They carry and share the virus. Part of this problem is how businesses operate.

I am in total agreement with Dr. Anthony Fauci’s message and the Wisconsin State Journal's editorial in last Sunday's newspaper, "Fauci sends a message to schools," about reopening schools.

A year of education is being lost at a great cost to the generation losing it.

My son teaches in a different state. His online classes are taught to a black computer screen, as no middle schooler seems to be comfortable with the countenance on Zoom or equivalent platforms. He cannot know who is attending his lecture or who is playing video games in an adjacent room. Camera requirements cannot be required due to concerns with invasion of privacy and disclosure of social environment. The impact of this the past two academic years will impact the overall well being of the economics of the country when today’s students move into their roles as adult members of society.

I strongly believe parents should have the option to be homeschooled, no matter what the conditions for their kids. 

I understand about kids falling behind, but it's only temporary. So I'd rather have my kids safe and let them catch up later. As far as I know, kids are not immune. They can still spread the virus to the teachers, to the parents and to their grandparents. Once we have a virus vaccine, then start sending kids to school.

I read with great disappointment last Sunday's State Journal editorial, "Fauci sends a message to schools," suggesting schools in Dane County open for in-person learning, which cited comments Dr. Anthony Fauci recently made.

How irresponsible to not include the other part of his comment that suggested closing bars and restaurants is necessary so we can open schools. In Wisconsin, lawmakers decided that opening businesses was more important than opening schools, and now many people blame schools -- instead of the global pandemic -- for only offering virtual learning.

Last Sunday's State Journal editorial, "Fauci sends a message to schools," took Dr. Anthony Fauci's comments out of context.

Yes, he said we should try to get students into school. But his preceding comment was to "close the bars and keep the schools open." He didn't just recommend to reopen schools, he said so in context of cutting off other avenues of community spread first.

I read with consternation last Sunday's State Journal editorial, "Fauci sends a message to schools."

I see a lot of handwringing in the editorial about students who might be at risk of “isolation, abuse, depression and hunger,” and about parents who “don’t have flexibility with their jobs or the latest technology.”

I find it pretty remarkable that the editorial board was able to gloss over the facts and act as a puppet, echoing statements made by the Legislature, in last Sunday's editorial, "Fauci sends a message to schools." 

They’ve taken Dr. Anthony Fauci’s statements dangerously out of context, and implied the safety of teachers is not important. The editorial did not mention that the Legislature has done nothing to help the citizens of Wisconsin since April while the death toll rises.

Last Sunday's State Journal editorial, "Fauci sends a message to schools," took Dr. Anthony Fauci’s comments wildly out of context.

We all can agree schools being opened is the main goal and top priority. But what Dr. Fauci also has said is rates of infection must come down in communities to do this safety. Dane County's rates are extremely high.