Georgia schools reopen. Florida also required all of its schools to reopen classrooms this fall but will allow parents of students to opt for online learning if they want. Georgias path to recovery for k 12 schools is a document that has been focused on health and physical requirements necessary for reopening school facilities across the state. Reopened schools in georgias paulding and cherokee counties drew negative attention this week after viral photographs appeared to show students packing hallways with little regard for social distancing or mask wearing.
Georgia school officials released guidelines monday on how to reopen the states public schools for the 2020 2021 school year amid the coronavirus pandemic. And theres no way to contact trace. Once kids go from one class to the next class to the next.
Theyre going to open the floodgates wide open said one mother who has an autoimmune disease. As georgia governor calls to reopen schools largest district will teach online only. Georgia has left control over closures up to.
Schools in jefferson georgia welcomed students back into the classroom on friday the first in the state to reopen for in person learning. Covid cases reported as schools reopen in georgia parents walk their children to the entrance of woodstock elementary school in cherokee county on the first day of school on august 3 2020. The school district cited the fact that the rate of infection in paulding county is lower than elsewhere in georgia as part of its reason for deciding to reopen but cases throughout the state have been high and the case numbers in counties that border paulding including polk cobb and bartow are high.