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With coronavirus cases steadily dropping in Delta County, the Escanaba School Board has decided to begin having junior and senior high school students resume full-time face-to-face instruction on Monday. Superintendent Coby Fletcher says there will still be an option for students to continue with the hybrid model of some in-person and some live-streamed classes.
And they’ve set a metric for completely going hybrid if things change. If there’s more than eleven positives of 250 quarantines on the junior-senior high school campus in a given week, then they’d look at returning to the part-time in-person, part-time remote format
Fletcher says the hope is to continue giving kids as much normalcy is possible. They still have to wear masks and social distance, but being in school on a regular schedule should help to reestablish a routine. High school winter sports practices have begun again, albeit non-contact for now, with some competitions scheduled to resume Feb. 1.
Fletcher says the kindergarten through fifth graders have been completely face-to-face and there have been no coronavirus problems.
County-wide, Fletcher says the number of new cases per million, percent positive rate, and other metrics are “trending in the right direction”.
And he says an increasing number of staff members have received the COVID-19vaccine. In fact, Fletcher himself got the vaccine Wednesday morning and says that he “feels pretty good”.
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