Updated 1/11/2021 10:45 PM
Elgin Area School District U-46 officials Monday shared details of their plan to switch to in-person learning despite safety concerns raised by teachers.
Hybrid in-person classes begin Tuesday for prekindergarten through sixth-grade students, and next Tuesday for middle school and high school students. Families who choose to keep their students in distance learning can still do so.
Superintendent Tony Sanders in his weekly message to district families acknowledged students had suffered significant losses since schools switched to remote learning last March due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
U-46 hasn t returned to in-person instruction except for a few weeks in the fall second quarter for select groups of students when school districts once again were urged to switch to remote learning.