Grandparents raising students face difficult decision to send children back to school or face virus exposure
SAN ANTONIO Amid increased health risks, families in which students are under their grandparents' care face a difficult decision as the new school year begins -- sending them back to school and risk possible COVID-19 infection or keeping them at home to learn virtually. Bristol, executive director of the nonprofit Texas Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, has been taking care of her five grandchildren for nine years. Not sending them to school -- grandparents are going to be very challenged with homeschooling, she said. As students go back to school, grandparents must make one of the hardest decisions that could impact their lives. If were going to continue to send our kids to school, I think were just going to see an increase in COVID, Bristol said.