West Virginia schools slated to return to in-person instruction next week
As COVID-19 cases surge across the United States, West Virginia’s Republican Governor Jim Justice has ordered elementary and middle schools to reopen for five-day-a-week, in-person instruction starting January 19.
Justice justified the decision by pointing to falling referrals in child protective service cases and a report that one-third of remote-learning students were failing at least one core class. “We’ve got a bunch of kids that are out there, really suffering,” he said. “So we must get back in school.”
A woman and her children walk to school. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)