The coronavirus pandemic is predicted to make childhood obesity worse as many children are still learning remotely and have reduced opportunities to exercise outside and an increasing reliance on processed food, reports The Counter..
Baltimore County Public Schools officials want to bring students back to classrooms in the second semester. But with just one month to go, it remains unclear if the county’s COVID-19 positivity rate will throw that plan off course.
At a recent school board meeting, board member Russ Kuehn pressed School Superintendent Darryl Williams on when school officials will make a decision about students returning.
“There is going to be a go, no go decision day, right?” Kuehn asked Williams. “I would guess that would be a week or so out, if not two weeks out.”
Williams told Kuehn he could not give him a specific date because reentry is going to be based on when the rate of COVID-19 cases in the county declines to an acceptable level.