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A few thousand Philadelphia public school students in kindergarten and first and second grades will return to in-person learning, starting Monday, March 8, city and school officials said today.
Superintendent William Hite Jr. described the initial return as the beginning of a way to slowly phase in in-person learning.
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The in-person learning will be a hybrid model and will reopen classrooms for a portion of the school week at 53 city schools. Hite said the exact number of students returning March 8 is based on which students at the 53 schools signed up to be the first to return. He estimated it would be about 3,000.
Updated on February 23, 2021 at 6:41 pm
Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic took a grip of Wilmington, Marymar Hopkins was laid off from her child care job.
Her three daughters – first, third and seventh graders – were going to school virtually.
“It was difficult because I was the only one and I couldn t work,” Hopkins said.
Her daughters were eating twice as much being home. Money was running out. And crime was escalating in the neighborhood.
In July, bullets went flying through their front door and into the wall and television.
“I end up moving. We went to a hotel,” she said, because she didn’t have enough to pay a security deposit at another rental property.