In the wake of a rapidly spreading outbreak of COVID-19, a virus that has already claimed the lives of two district teachers, Rutherford County Schools has announced that it will move to distance learning to until the end of this year. The move will take effect on Wednesday and mean the district will not meet with students in-person from Wednesday through Friday of this, the final week of the semester.
Here are screenshots of an email from the district on the move:
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Of the systems going virtual, do you have information related to how they are working the parameters? Which systems will have teachers in buildings and which will be at home? Which students will have laptops or paper assignments for these days? Thanks for covering this story and kudos to the officials for moving toward safer approaches.
These are all great questions — I’m open to working on/receiving this information. Would love to know what systems are doing virtual/hybrid/how they are making that work.