DY, so if your respected Rabonim do not object to people wearing masks, what stops people from wearing them.
I am sure there are some kids that need to be in school. At the same time, there are a lot who could benefit from being more with their parents. As a thought experiment – is there ONE class you’d like to learn together with your kids? Humash? Alef Beis? Science? Math? Gym?
Most of my kids switched to online schools pre-Corona. They are both at school and at home. They, as I, rarely wear masks.
There is a difference between online schools and regular schools trying to do online and hybrid. The former saw no changes except longer enrollment lines. The latter, yes, struggle sometimes despite best efforts, although CTLawyer seem to report that his family is doing fine, reporting progress, relative to in-person, similar to ours. The main mistake schools made when trying to be online is frantic attempts to replicate in-person experience with everyone hanging over magic zoom. the right way is to give students well-prepared work, with online tests, and teachers focusing on lectures and follow up with students.
I think the most frustrating thing for parents to see is when kids do not study or misbehave, but you need to realize that things were not better at school, it was simply out of your sight. Frankly, if you think, you have to be a very bad parent to match influence of tens of wild kids that your children are encountering daily.