COVID-19 has found its way onto two more Wayne County Public Schools campuses.
In a news release issued this afternoon, the district said individuals who have tested positive for the virus were at Wayne School of Engineering and Edgewood Community Developmental School.
The news brings the district’s total up to five since campuses were opened last week to staff and some students who have already returned under the state’s Plan B hybrid reopening model.
Cases of individuals with the virus being in WCPS facilities have also been documented at Meadow Lane Elementary, Carver Elementary and Wayne Early Middle College High School.
Wayne School of Engineering and WEMCHS have both already welcomed students back under the state’s Plan B hybrid reopening model.
WCPS did not specify what actions would be taken on those campuses, but said, in the release, that “all recommended guidelines from the NC Department of Health and Human Services have been followed at both schools.”
Dear Board of Education,
Yes, students learn better in person. Yes, parents have to work. But listen to your Central Office professionals and board members who have spent years in schools and go remote before any more students and teachers are exposed. Let them learn at home at least during the first nine weeks and then re-assess the situation. Do the right thing.
I think the students should go back to school and let the teachers and students who are sick stay home until they have been free of fever for 5 days. If or when 25% of students and staff are out sick, go to onlline learning for 6 weeks and reassess.
Good Lord woman, what are you on? Let 25% of a school population get sick with this deadly virus before you decide to take action? Do you have any idea how many parents, grand parents, aunts/uncles, teachers, and random other adults that these kids encounter would be killed by such a policy? Not to mention how many kids could die or suffer lifelong lung damage after these infections? It must be nice to go through life oblivious to the real world.
You want to wait until 300 people in one building carry home a deadly virus and allow it to spread before you do anything to stop it??!! We will need to borrow New York’s refrigerator trucks.