They will have the option to choose all-remote learning when schools reopen this fall, Murphy said Monday.

“The Department of Education will be releasing guidance allowing for parents to choose all-remote learning for their children,” Murphy said during his daily press briefing in Trenton Monday. “Again, the details will be coming out later this week, but we wanted everyone to know now that we will allow for this step.”

He did not provide further details.

“There a lot of moving parts to this,” Murphy said. “We want to get it right. We want to do it responsibly.”

Some teachers are also concerned about the possible health risks of teaching under current conditions. When asked if the remote option would apply to them, Murphy said that wasn’t the general plan, but he said he did not want to predict the plans that will be announced later this week.

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“This is going to be focused on kids and parents,” he said. “One of the aspirations put forward by educators has been less density in the classrooms and some capacity limits. If kids are remote learning, that is indirectly addressing capacity and density in the classroom,” Murphy said.

The Education Department released guidance last month on reopening schools. The guidance requires masks on staff and strongly encourages students to wear them unless they have a medical exception, keep social distancing and screen students and staff for symptoms.

However, the department also said districts “should strive to ensure that every student has access to a device and internet connectivity” to engage students in remote learning when necessary.

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 According to the analytics and advisory Washington-based company, the poll was able to detect high levels of parental anxiety similar to those measured in the aftermath of Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida, according to new Gallup research.

The return to school of after summer vacation occurs the week before Labor Day, and Gallup recently released some data which indicates that 34% of parents said they fear for their children’s safety at school, and 12 percent said their children have expressed concern for their safety.

The Hill breaking-news journalist, Zack Budryk, recently wrote: “Gallup: No letup in parents’ concerns about school safety”, where he compares recent measurements on the subject.

As an example, last August, near the start of the first school year after the massacre in Parkland´s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School i that left 17 people dead, 35 percent of parents said they were preoccupied.

In August 2013, the first back-to-school period after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in which 26 people died, including 20 children, 33 percent of parents said they were worried, according to Gallup.

Gallup conducted the poll August 1-14, a period that included back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that left a total of 31 casualties. Neither of the shootings occurred at a school.

On Saturday, August 31, another shooting in Texas left at least seven people murdered.

According to Gallup, anxiety among parents of school-aged children reached an all-time high of 55 percent in April 1999, the month of the Columbine High School shooting, where 13 people died. Although the fear had diminished a bit by that fall, with 47 percent it was still a record for that month of August. It fell to 26 percent the following August.

 Fear levels have not reached the levels of April or August 1999 in the following two decades, but they increased after several other school shootings, including a 2001 incident in 2001 at Santana High School in Santee, California, and an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, in 2006, reaching an all-time low of 15% in 2009, according to Gallup.

Gallup surveyed a random sample of 320 parents of children in kindergarten through 12th grade. The poll has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

Translated by: José Espinoza

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