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Students will be back in elementary schools March 1 and in middle and high schools March 8, after a vote by the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education, Tuesday, unless they change plans again.
“I promise you if we are not in a better place, I will bring a motion at our February meeting,” said Board Chair Allison Gant before the vote. “I do believe safety will have to trump at some point.”
The board had a long, contentious and emotional debate Tuesday afternoon on Superintendent Bruce Benson’s proposal to push the return to schools date back a month and have students in schools two days a week. They voted 5-2 for the plan, while COVID-19 is worse than ever in Alamance County with two members of the board having it go through their homes and the Alamance County Health Department reporting a cluster of eight cases at Southern Alamance High School during the meeting.