CONCORD – Last fall, Matt Morgan was sitting in his parents’ Concord home watching the NBA players in the Orlando, Florida, “bubble” compete for the championship.
Kannapolis City Schools and Cabarrus County Schools reported their updated COVID-19 numbers for the week of Jan. 25 through Jan. 31 on Monday.
KCS reported three new cases and 16 new quarantines while CCS reported 61 new cases (19 staffers and 42 students). CCS is not currently releasing quarantine numbers to the public.
Kannapolis City Schools remains in Plan C, so no students are on campus, but 743 staff members remain at work in either nutritional or administrative capacities.
Superintendent Chip Buckwell, who announced his retirement Monday after 37 years with KCS, released the numbers in his weekly Facebook video.
âAs our community keeps moving towards large-scale vaccination, it is still important to continue with all the recommended prevention practices,â he said. âGetting students safely back face-to-face is #KCSEssential.â
EDITOR S NOTE:
This story has been updated with quotes from Wednesday s meeting as well as a statement from Board of Education intern Finley Edwards.
The Cabarrus County Board of Education voted 5-2 at an emergency called meeting on Wednesday to move into fully remote learning starting Monday, Dec. 14.
There is an end date set on the motion as the board hopes to bring students back to campus after Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 19. Effectively, students who are learning in a blended format right now will miss six days of on-campus learning. Students who are in Plan B currently went to school Thursday, while all students will learn remotely as normally scheduled today.