With many parents and students begging MCPS to take action and return to online school, the Board of Education is currently considering numerous factors in order to make the decision of whether specific schools should stay in-person or transition to virtual learning for a 14-day period.Ī new study reported in Medical News Today “revealed that the reopening of schools resulted in a higher number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in counties with hybrid or in-person teaching than in those with remote learning.” With cases dramatically increasing across the country due to the new COVID variant, Omicron, the debate between in-person and virtual school is stronger than ever. While many students were pleased to get back to the education system that they were used to, others dreaded returning to long school days filled with tests, piles of homework and countless days spent working into the late hours of the night. This past fall, schools across the country returned to “normal school,” in-person with masks and extra safety measures in place. However, with the start of the 2020 school year last fall, schools had developed concrete plans to continue educating America’s youth while also preserving the health and safety of students, staff, teachers and their families through remote learning.ĬOVID-19 has not gone away, and with the background needed to smoothly transition to virtual learning, MCPS should switch to virtual learning for the foreseeable future. As the severity of COVID-19 set in, the entire world was in a panic, and no one, especially the school systems, knew what to do. By Caitlin Murphy, Assistant Online Editorįlashback to March 2020.
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