Students return full-time to a remade school Written by Dean Thompson on April 5, 2021
Pictured is one of the hallways near the cafeteria and library where new benches were installed. Taking advantage of the seating are, from left, Paul Ortega, Zeke Torres, Brandon Torres and Cierra Torres from Raul Diaz’s class.
Students will be heading back to class Tuesday across Grant County and not hybrid classes this time, but full, in-person learning with all students being in class five days a week, according to guidelines issued unexpectedly last month by the New Mexico Public Education Department.
The PED and the state shut down schools just more than a year ago, in March 2020, only allowed hybrid schedules for elementary students in the fall semester, and then opened up to middle and high schools very recently.