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The spread of COVID-19 in classrooms is an infrastructure problem. According to the students walking out-and the teachers agitating nationwide-they weren’t. This wave of student strikes highlighted the stark reality that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 broke through the supposed firewall of vaccinations even while leaders as high up as President Biden and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, along with a bevy of experts and pundits, insisted that schools were safe for in-person instruction. In Chicago, Illinois Denver, Colorado Round Rock, Texas and Silver Spring, Maryland, students walked out to demand that school leaders take pandemic safety more seriously. In Saint Paul, Minnesota, students organized for virtual learning options. In Oakland, California, students threatened to walk out of class unless school leaders provided masks, weekly PCR tests, and more space to eat outdoors.

Public school students protest outside of the Chicago Public Schools headquarters after walking out of their classrooms on Januin Chicago, Illinois (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The spread of COVID-19 in classrooms has revealed an infrastructure problem made worse by the way the United States finances improvements to school buildings.

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