Here in the Netherlands, Junior Schools and Kindergartens have gone back. All the kids doing half days giving class sizes of around 15. 90% are doing days about. A child attends M/W/F this week and T/T next week. The other 10% have half of a class in, in the mornings and the other half in the afternoon.

The science being used is that children appear far less likely to a) catch it and b) spread it.

Social distancing? There seems to be a general understanding that there is o way in hell that you are going to get 5 year olds to socially distance so teachers are SD'ing but not the kids. In kindergartens, should a child have an "accident", the parents will be phoned to come and do the nappy/underpants and trousers/skirt/dress change.

It's a gamble and part of the decision was based on restoring children's social and mental development. Another part was to reverse the upward trend in child abuse that has occurred everywhere in the world. Calls to the Dutch version of "Childline" were up 50%.