If schools don't reopen, will parents have to choose between jobs and kids?

After word reached parents in New York City that the department of education was considering a hybrid plan for reopening schools that would allow students at school for part of the week, Smitten Kitchen founder Deb Perelman tweeted what she later called the "primal scream that we — and countless other parents for whom this situation isn't just untenable, it's impossible — have been feeling since March." What’s confusing to me is that these plans are moving forward apace without any consideration of the working parents who will be ground up in the gears when they collide. Perelman said a hybrid reopening plan would leave working parents "ground up in the gears" between reopened cities and closed or partially closed schools.