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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. ‘Virtual’ parents object to on-campus tests, lax school COVID safeguards
The Bulloch County Schools, which as of Wednesday had roughly 10% of their total student and employee population on precautionary quarantines for possible coronavirus exposure, do not require face masks to come to school in-person. Social distancing is encouraged but not uniformly achieved.
But the school system is requiring, this semester, that elementary and middle school students taking their classes at home in the virtual program report to school sites in-person to take academic tests known as iReady assessments.