For many US schools welcoming students back, a return to in-person learning was abruptly halted after new COVID-19 cases.
For many US schools welcoming students back, a return to in-person learning was abruptly halted after newMore than 2,000 students, teachers and staff members across five states have been quarantined after at least 230 positive coronavirus cases were reported.
In Georgia's Cherokee County School District, more than 1,100 students, teachers and staff members are under quarantine after Covid-19 cases were reported. The district began in-person learning August 3, and as of Tuesday reported 59 positive cases. The two-week quarantine period has impacted more than a dozen schools.
It's a scene that has played out in Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Indiana, with school districts there also enforcing quarantines. And it's left many teachers reluctant to return to the classroom.For Marie Tichenor, following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meant seeing her students in person would be especially risky for her family.
"Even if the kids kept on their mask and didn't touch each other and stayed six feet apart ... it's little things like on the first day of school, children cry. A child will ask me to tie his or her shoes. My gut reaction is going to go near that child, to comfort that child, to help that child."
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