Also in IA as OP is. The district my kids go to has been open 100% since the beginning of the school year with an option for remote. At the Christmas/New Year break they asked all the parents to commit for the rest of the year to either in person or remote so they could best allocate resources. Small district with maybe 600 K-12 enrollment. Some of you in larger districts may think it's easier to do in person with these number. I can assure you it's not since small districts here are usually staffed at bare minimum so anyone gone is a major issue. Have had all sports, most games have been played, very few students out of school sick. Masks inside and out, seating charts, are about the only meaningful differences between now and pre-COVID. As of the 1st week of April, masks will be optional for before and after school, as well as outdoors during school day.
Most of the kids and staff have been supportive, and welcome the in person contact. I personally am grateful as my autistic son backslid a little when he was home for 6 months socially, and is almost meeting the goals that we had set winter of last year. He needs all the group contact he can get to socialize and practice group behavior. You cannot replace that with Zoom.
Now, contrast that with my niece, who teaches in Omaha Public Schools, which was the only district in the greater Council Bluffs/Omaha area to go virtual/hybrid as their only options at the beginning of the school year. The kids aren't required to be one or the other, they don't have the staff to cover the ever-changing schedules of the students. My niece has no idea who or how many kids will be in person any given day, has to teach both modes at the same time, and the flux of kids moving back and forth has caused more spikes in COVID in the area than any of the surrounding areas. OPS will not enforce a schedule as they have bought into the union and media hysteria, and it's causing the whole system to fall apart. All the districts surrounding them have basically the same level of urbanization, but are not experiencing the same level of issues. All while holding to a schedule for the kids, parents, and teachers. Most are hybrid or in person all the time, and making the parents choose a course of action. Which is their right, as far as I'm concerned.
I feel like every family should be allowed to make the choice, but with that choice can come restrictions on what you have available to you once you've made it. Like, if you make that choice, and then their grades fall, it's on you as the parent to catch them back up. I am guessing that when the studies are done about this time, peer-reviewed, and released, we shall see what the true cost of lockdown mania has wrought on the next generation. We will have only ourselves to blame.