American families' anger over months of home schooling due to the mishandling of the crisis has made education a key election issue and may be why Trump trails Biden.
Students social distance at a school in Los Angeles, although most students are still learning from home. AP
Three months ago my wife and I took a decision none of our neighbours in suburban Maryland could make: send our daughters, aged 11 and 14, back into a classroom.
The two of them have both just finished their third week at school in Canberra, having left the US last month for two weeks of quarantine in a hotel in Sydney.
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