While big-city school districts that plan to offer only remote learning this fall, a debate plays out in California's Sutter County
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In Sutter County in California’s bucolic Sacramento Valley, coronavirus cases are rising, but Mike Ziegenmeyer wants his kids back in the classroom.
“I want my kids in school,” said Ziegenmeyer, a county supervisor and political conservative. “I think they need the social interaction.” Cases started rising sharply in Sutter, as elsewhere in California, at the beginning of June and have continued to climb, increasing from about 75 cases to nearly 700. At least 17 people from Sutter, with a population of 97,000 and just a few hospital beds, were hospitalized with COVID-19 as of July 16, and 378 are currently ill, county data show.
Ziegenmeyer is also concerned parents will suffer economic harm if they can’t work because children are home from school.In California, many large urban districts, including Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento, have said they will begin the academic year with remote instruction. But plans vary from county to county, and from one school district to another.
“It is my hope that they will change their minds,” said Dina Luetgens, president of the Yuba City Teachers Association, which wants a hybrid model under which only half the district’s students would be on campus at a time.
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