In about a month, kids of all ages across the country will be going into a new school year with all their education essentials. Notebooks, colored pencils, a pack of medical masks... you know, the usual.

This school year is obviously not going to look like any other, and people who are ignoring that are in denial. There's a pandemic, there has been a pandemic, and if you keep acting like it's not real, then there will still be a pandemic for a while longer. It's not hard to connect the dots here, people.

So why as state after state rises with their amount of cases, are we shoving a group of snot-nosed kids into a room together for 8 hours multiple times a week? Our curve is not flattening; it's a freaking rollercoaster, and the ascent keeps getting dangerously steeper and steeper.

There have been so many things pointed out by teachers and parents about the negatives of doing in-person classes this fall instead of an online option. As someone who has her public school years' still freshly cemented in her head, I can attest to most of the points being made. One person comes into contact with so many people throughout the day, especially in high school, and one positive case could quickly become dozens in the blink of an eye. Many teachers would fall into the high-risk category, and substitutes travel across schools, potentially spreading Covid everywhere they work. This virus is an evolving pest that even the smartest of scientists and doctors still have questions about, so we should err on the side of caution.

I don't know if some of these politicians don't remember being in school since it was half a century ago for most of them or if their true colors of being a person with a complete lack of regard for other human beings is finally shining through, but they seem to be doing more harm than good. Yes, kids will do better in a real classroom than a virtual one, but you know what could definitely affect their performances and put a damper on their school year... their teachers and classmates dying.

If you think some of these so-called grownups who throw tantrums in public for not wanting to follow rules are bad, just imagine their children. Kids and teens are sort of known for defying orders sometimes, so what makes people think everyone's going to comply to the new restrictions at schools, when adults don't even want to now.

Speaking of that, don't bother comparing the U.S. to other countries who are doing business as usual for school this year, because those countries have gotten the virus under control significantly in comparison to us. Quite frankly and pardon my French, the Coronavirus has made America its b***h.

If you think colleges are handling this any better than K-12 schools, you'd be sorely mistaken. I'm sure some have it under control, but most of them like to keep giving updates that they're working on working on something. That doesn't exactly instill confidence in me, when I could be heading back in a couple weeks. And I say could, because as of today, I actually have no clue when I'm supposed to be back on campus. Isn't that nifty?

Also, universities, don't claim that you are doing in-person classes this school year and then switch majority of your classes online, because I currently am an out-of-state college student who has over 75% of her classes online this year. Thank you for keeping me in the dark just to confuse the crap out of me when you actually give me a crumb of information.

Listen, I know this is a crazy year, and none of us know exactly what's going to happen, but the lack of strong leadership that we've been seeing at the national level and how it is affecting schools all around the country certainly isn't helping to ease the stress of it all. P.S. Betsy DeVos, if you're reading this, will you just do me a favor and stop. K, thanks!