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Brian Daugherty has a desk calendar hanging on his wall at home that has counted the days he s been away from his Jefferson Middle School special education students in a classroom because of the COVID-19 pandemic. By Tuesday, when Daugherty is set to rejoin them as a hybrid teacher, it will have been 320 days, he said. It s like a journey to a new frontier, Daugherty said. It will be nice to see them again, without all of the white noise and distractions. About 44 percent of students from Springfield School District 186 have signed up to return to classrooms under the hybrid model, putting them in classrooms two days a week. ....