When the whole world shut down in March, parents like me faced endless challenges. School closings meant juggling remote school for our kids, our own working from home, easing our children’s anxieties about the pandemic and loss of social interaction, and the day-to-day work of running a household increased by everyone being home all the time.

Now, as a new school year looms, we are faced with another challenge: we are being forced to make a decision between sending our children back to in-person schooling, and keeping them home for remote schooling. It is a situation with no good choices — and potentially deadly consequences.

Here in New York City, reopening plans have been short on details for parents. A survey sent out to parents in June, clearly designed to allow the mayor to falsely claim that 75 percent of parents feel comfortable sending their children to school, has been used as evidence that parents feel reopening is safe.