‘Out of control’: When Utah schools opened in a coronavirus hot spot

On a Friday in mid-September, Sunny Washington got a text from another mother at her daughter’s high school in an affluent suburb of Salt Lake City. Three weeks into the school year, the number of coronavirus cases at the school was rising, and the district was considering shifting to online instruction. The text urged parents to beg the school board to keep classrooms open.Washington ignored the text — she thought the school should be taking advice from public health experts, not pa