"This came completely out of the blue. We were not informed, consulted, asked," Ladd said.
"The message that keeps getting sent is that teachers and administrators just want to keep working remotely, and they don't want to be back in school with kids, and that is furthest from the truth."
NHPR's COVID & The Classroom is a reporting project looking at the effects of the pandemic on New Hampshire's students, parents, teachers, and schools.
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Ladd said many districts are trying to figure out how to maintain social distancing of three feet on buses, in classrooms, and during lunch.