“Back in April teachers were considered heroes. But that messaging has changed. Now if you’re not willing to risk your life by going into a building unnecessarily then you’re lazy,' says teacher Ashley Newman
Photo: Brynn Anderson/AP/Shutterstock Just as the coronavirus reaches what health officials are calling a “new phase” of being “extraordinarily widespread” throughout the United States, with 2 million new cases reported in July alone, it’s time for back-to-school season.
For those that have reopened with students physically in school buildings, the situation looks surreal. One particularly chilling image shows students in a packed hallway in Paulding County, Georgia, outside metro Atlanta, only a few of them in masks: But some parents are saying that they were put on a waiting list for online-only study — and while they wait, their kids are required to be in school. “They’re telling me, as we’re on the waiting list, we’re highly encouraged to come to school,” one parent told the local news. “They told me that if my daughter wasn’t there today, she would be withdrawn.
Elsewhere, in Gwinnett County, where teachers and staff met in person last week to begin readying schools, 260 district employees were told not to return because they had tested positive for COVID-19 or had been in contact with someone who had it. Gwinnett County has one of the highest rates of coronavirus cases in the state, with 17,781 positive cases, 1,996 hospitalizations, and 240 deaths.
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