Schools In Two Different States Close Due To COVID Cases

HERE WE GO AGAIN!

Schools in Alabama and Tennessee temporarily closed and switched to remote learning due to a surge in COVID-19 cases.

The closures reportedly impacted more than a thousand children.

School officials said COVID-19 forced them to perform a ‘deep clean’ on facilities, according to Daily Mail.

NEW – Covid surge forces schools to close and bring back pandemic-era measures- and more are at risk as millions head back to class next week — Alabama and Tennessee announced the closure of two schools — affecting more than a thousand children — just days into the new academic…

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Per Daily Mail:

The closures — both in Republican states — came despite a mountain of evidence suggesting they hamper children’s learning, social interactions and ability to develop natural immunity to common infections.

And there are fears that more disruption could be in store for students in the coming months — with many schools, in states like New York, New Jersey and Michigan, returning after the Labor Day weekend.

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Johnson-Abernathy-Graetz (JAB) high school in Montgomery, Alabama, which has 1,500 students in grades 9 through 12, made the decision to switch to virtual classes just four days into its new academic year after 15 teachers caught Covid. There was no data on how many students were infected.

Staff and children were told to stay home on Wednesday, August 14 and Thursday, August 15 and attend lessons via remote learning while a deep clean was conducted in the school buildings.

The school has now re-opened with masks and disinfection wipes available in every classroom. Masks have not been made mandatory.

Alabama: High school goes virtual due to COVID-19 outbreak

Johnson Abernathy Graetz (JAG) High School in Montgomery held classes virtually on Wednesday and Thursday due to “a COVID-19 outbreak.” https://t.co/eP8udUivchhttps://t.co/0VsffSfi6q

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“Stigall elementary in western Tennessee also closed for a day just a week into its new term for deep cleaning,” Daily Mail noted.

School was closed for one day due to Coronavirus at Stigall Elementary in part of the Humboldt school system in western Tennessee, a one-day closure was announced just a week into the new term amid an ‘uptick’ in cases.https://t.co/M9AgzFyktL

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WREG reports:

The Humboldt School District temporarily shut down an elementary school Tuesday because of the rising number of COVID-19 cases.

Class is now back in session at Stigall Primary School after it was briefly closed. But it shows that COVID is still part of our lives.

Ginger Carver, Humboldt City Schools Director of Communications, said the school had several cases Monday in which students and faculty had tested positive for COVID over the weekend.

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Parents with students at the elementary school were told to keep them home as crews sanitized the building.

“We just wanted to take precautions to let them out of school on Tuesday in order to fully clean the school, to get a good disinfection of every surface that we got,” Carver said.

Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show COVID-19 infections are spiking in 39 states, including Tennessee.

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