It's surprisingly hard to find an authoritative history of this. Like you, my source is having been there and experienced it: my cousins, who were in private s

It's surprisingly hard to find an authoritative history of this. Like you, my source is having been there and experienced it: my cousins, who were in private school, were quickly able to go back to in-person instruction; my sister, who was in public school, was not (until she switched). Kids without the financial resources to do that just lost out. Here's an NYT article from Nov 4, 2020, headline "In San Francisco, Closed Public Schools, Open Private Schools": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/san-francisco-closed-public-schools-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/san-francisco-closed-p... Here's an SFUSD memo six months later announcing the partial return of some kids to in-person learning: https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resources/covid-19-announcements-and-updates/family-digest/march-24-2021 https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resource... Sure I'm dunking on SF city gov, because it deserves it! Its citizens are uniquely poorly served, especially its poorer citizens, in a city that is one of wealthiest on earth.