Closing the schools was never the right thing to do. The damage this virus can do is strictly short-term. A few years from now, it’ll be history. But the damage done by closing the schools will still be haunting us decades from now.
Gov. DeWine of Ohio has already “reassured” parents that schools will not be doing anything to make up for lost time, because remote learning has been just as good as open schools, for all students everywhere in the state. Which is of course patently false; many students haven’t had any remote schooling at all, for various reasons (including that many schools followed DeWine’s advice).