The Monroe County Community School Corporation has been reporting positive COVID cases among students, teachers and staff since the beginning of the school year. But the district has not shared the number of people who are quarantined or how many classes have moved online because of COVID infections.
Data obtained through a public records request shows twelve classrooms moved online between August first and September 27 because of COVID-19.
All the classrooms that moved online were in elementary schools. The first classrooms to move online were third and fourth and fifth and sixth grade split classes from Clear Creek on August 18. Those classes returned to in-person instruction August 30.
The most recent class to move online was a sixth grade Fairview classroom on October 22. That class will return to in-person instruction November 1.
The year before, MCCSC’s plan relied on a phased plan where all schools would be learning online, a hybrid schedule, or all student learning in-person.
MCCSC reported five COVID-19 cases among students and staff Monday, two of which were not from students or staff in MCCSC buildings.
In August, MCCSC leaders decided not to use definitive numbers to make decisions of when classes would move to hybrid or at-home learning.
Instead, leadership said decisions would rely more heavily on contact tracing.
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