based on a friend's experience (below) i will just say that every parent has to be ready for drastic changes/potential lacking delivery of instruction-
friend works for a district in a state other than my own. her district had a resounding failure w/spring shutdowns-distance learning was so lacking it was called off within weeks and the last 2 months of school 'cancelled' (everyone just promoted/graduated). ALL SUMMER the district has said 'in person for fall', teachers/staff/parents have voiced 'shouldn't we have contingent distance planning, bulk up distance and work on areas that caused it to fail just in case', district was ' NO, NO, NO-not needed, face to face, face to face, face to face'. this past month teachers are confirmed for their classes, kids are assigned, supply lists go out, parents purchase/make plans.............this past week with less than 10 days till first day of school/less than 7 shy of teachers/staff reporting to their assignments-district announces 'NO face to face, ALL DISTANCE for the entire fall quarter at minimum' and tells teachers it's on them to figure out how to integrate their lesson plans into distance and is only pushing back the start date by one week to accomplish this
this is a district that has well known issues with lack of internet in some geographic areas so their solution to parent concerns-teachers will build in an secondary instructional delivery plan that accommodates non internet accessible students AND it will also be up and running day 1.
friend says it's chaos-at this point district is saying all delivery must be from schools so staff must report but their own kids can't be on campus. retirement/hr office is flush with retirements/resignations, no one knows if the classes they were assigned to teach/told to now distance plan for will be what they do teach. parents who work during traditional school hours are scrambling to find childcare, parents of special need kids are at a total loss........
it's a freaking nightmare.