A Mississippi town welcomed students back to school last week. Now 116 are home in quarantine. ....
I believe this will the norm in news headlines sadly.
Last week, schools in Corinth, Miss., welcomed back
hundreds of students.
By Friday ........... one high-schooler tested positive for the novel coronavirus. By early this week, the count rose to six students and one staff member infected.
Now, 116 students have been sent home to quarantine, a spokeswoman for the school district confirmed.
Despite the quick fallout, the district’s superintendent said he has “ no plans “ to change course.
“Just because you begin to have positive cases, that is not a reason for closing school,” Superintendent Lee Childress said in a
Facebook Live broadcast on Tuesday on the school district’s Facebook page.
Other districts that have welcomed teachers or students back have faced similar challenges. After teachers returned to plan lessons in Georgia’s largest district,
260 district employees were barred from reentering schools because of either testing positive for the coronavirus or being in close contact with someone who had.
In southeast Kansas, six school administrators tested positive
after attending a three-day retreat.
And within hours of opening, a
school in Greenfield, Ind., was informed by the health department that a student had the virus.
Let that sink in ......
Children have now become the “ canary in the coal mine “