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The usual summer learning slide is expected to be bigger because of the pandemic.
Posted: Aug 4, 2021 5:18 PM
Updated: Aug 4, 2021 6:29 PM
Posted By: Alex Torres-Perez
The summer learning slide is usual at the beginning of the school yea, but because of the pandemic school teachers are worried about a larger Covid learning gap. We have gone through what is the biggest disruption in education services in our country. We d be fooling ourselves if we said there weren t any students who were negatively impacted by the last year and a half, Dr. Michael Sibley with the Alabama Department of Education said.
At this time, it s unclear how big the COVID learning gap truly is because students are just now returning to schools, but teachers already know it is something they ll have to face.
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In light of new CDC guidelines, school systems across the state are requiring masks for the upcoming school year including Montgomery Public Schools and Dallas County Schools.
As July is winding down, parents are getting ready to send their kids back to school, some for the first time in over a year. The CDC believes it is safe for students to be back in the classroom, however according to new guidelines, they recommend everyone in school buildings wear masks.
The Alabama State Department of Education is leaving it up to individual schools systems to make calls on masks requirements.
ADPH spokesman Ryan Easterling in a message to APR on Wednesday said the department was finalizing its school toolkit which will follow CDC guidance on masks in schools, which the CDC updated Tuesday.
CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told reporters Tuesday that the change in mask recommendations comes after new data on the delta variant shows that viral loads carried by the vaccinated are as high as those carried by the unvaccinated, meaning the vaccinated can transmit the virus.
“In recent days I have seen new scientific data from recent outbreak investigations showing that that delta variant behaves uniquely differently from past strains of the virus that cause COVID-19,” Walensky said, also noting, however, that the CDC believes vast majority of transmission is occurring in unvaccinated people and through unvaccinated people.