Gwinnett County Public Schools — Georgia’s largest school district — will move online this fall, reversing its previous plan to hold a mix of in-person and online classes.
School buses sit parked at a lot in Marietta, Ga., in March. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has pushed for students to return to school in the fall, but the state's largest system, in Gwinnett County, has decided on all-virtual learning.Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The school district — the state's largest — announced earlier this week that it would transition to all-virtual learning, reversing its previous plan to hold a mix of in-person and virtual classes. "I think we all understand that face-to-face instructions is always a preferred model, but that needs to be done at this time with a pretty good assurance that students and staff will be safe. And we did not feel like that was the case," he told NPR in an interview Wednesday.
Ahead of Wilbanks' reversal on Monday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said he wants kids back in schools in person because they're safer there,"from a nutrition standpoint, child abuse, human trafficking."
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