After Houston ISD closed down in 2020 because of the Covid panic, the ONLY direction we received from the Superintendent was that they would remain open for the government meals program they had for poor families. That's IT. It took these assholes weeks to talk about what they were going to do about schooling, but "free meals program?" No worries, no impacts!
It was then that I finally understood that public schools are just vehicles for cronyism. We began homeschooling right after.