Private schools were taking extensive coronavirus precautions. Maryland bureaucrats didn’t care.

As public schools and some private schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, were deciding to keep their doors closed and resort to all virtual schooling in the fall, many private and religious schools were investing in plexiglass and air filtration systems while consulting with infectious disease specialists in order to create a way to bring students into school this fall.

County officials didn’t care. They refused to look at schools’ plans and waved off guidance from state and federal officials on their way to barring nonpublic schools from meeting in person.