Georgia school district will now only offer virtual learning after 90 staff members quarantine

Source: CNN

(CNN)A school district in Georgia has decided to start the school year with virtual learning, after more than 90 staff members were forced to quarantine due to a confirmed or suspected case of Covid-19, or due to being exposed to someone who did.

"If today was the first day of school, we would have been hard-pressed to have sufficient staff available to open our schools," Barrow County Schools Superintendent Chris McMichael said in a statement on Wednesday.

The Barrow County School System, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta, planned to start with both in-person and remote instruction August 17. Now, only virtual learning will be available after dozens of county staff had to quarantine "due to a confirmed case of Covid-19, a suspected case, or direct contact with a confirmed case," the district's statement said.

An estimated 5.6% of the approximately 1,600 staff that had been in school buildings for more than a week to conduct pre-planning were out, the superintendent said in a school board meeting on Wednesday. Staff were required to wear masks inside, per the district.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/us/barrow-county-georgia-schools-covid-19/index.html

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I think if and when Trump leaves office, Democrats should push for a memorial to honor the medical personnel and now teachers who had to sacrifice their lives due to Republican efforts to turn efforts to fight the spread into a cultural war issue.