Gaston County Schools’ youngest students will return to school four days a week starting March 1.
In a 7-2 vote Monday, Gaston County school board members moved to send the county’s public elementary students back to school for in-person instruction four days a week.
Rather than one group of students coming to school for in-person learning Monday and Tuesday and the other group on Thursday and Friday, both groups of students will come to school all four days.
While teachers were already conducting in-person instruction four days a week, in March, the number of students in each classroom will be increased to about the size of a class prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.