As Americans battle over reopening schools, European schools never closed…or are reopening from temporary closures.

Today, almost a million Italian high schoolers returned to classrooms, which might surprise American readers of this weekend’s Washington Post story that claimed “As President Biden pushes to reopen U.S. schools, much of Europe is moving in the opposite direction.”

And alongside those Italian high schoolers — Italy never closed most of its primary and middle schools after they reopened last fall — millions of children in French, Spanish…