A Georgia district for school has temporarily closed a second high school that reopened last week to get more students and staff quarantined because of the coronavirus.
The Cherokee County School District announced Wednesday that Woodstock High School would close by Aug. 31. A day after announcing the same decision at Etowah High School.
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“By morning, the number of positive cases at the school had risen to a total of 14 with tests for another 15 students pending; and, as a result of the confirmed cases, 289 students and staff are quarantined and, if the pending tests prove positive, the total would increase significantly, “Superintendent Brian Hightower wrote in a message to parents.
Each school has about 2,500 students. It is unclear whether students or staff at the school were infected.
The Cherokee County School District, about 30 miles north of Atlanta, reopened to more than 30,000 of its 42,000 students on August 3 and re-filled with instruction five days a week. About 22% of students chose the district’s online learning option.
On Tuesday, Cherokee County left at least 826 students in quarantine, but by Wednesday that number jumped to 1,156. With 37 staff members also on the quarantine list, there are nearly 1,200 people isolating themselves to stop the spread of the virus, although it is likely that many are not infected.
Etowah High School was among those who made headlines last week in photo shows dozens of maskless students gathered for senior day photos.
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Other school districts in the state also face challenges as the school year begins.
North Paulding High School in Dallas, about 32 miles west of Atlanta, sparked similar controversy after a photo of students going viral in a hall last week went viral.
In this photo posted on Twitter, students follow a hall on August 4, 2020, to Paul Paulding High School in Dallas, Ga. The school is temporarily closed just a week after it opened. (Twitter via AP)
Paulding County Schools Superintendent Brian Otott announced Sunday that the school would temporarily shift to distance learning after parents were warned that at least six students and three staff members had tested positive for COVID-19. The school reopened Monday with new protocols.
Cobb County Schools said last week that it will continue with plans for online-only classes as school begins Aug. 17, after it was alerted by the Georgia Department of Health to about 100 potential cases of coronavirus among students and staff, WSB reported. TV.
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Meanwhile, Georgia’s largest school district in Gwinnett County is struggling to start online learning for its 180,000 students, as parents complained that their students visited several times and failed to log in to the district’s online system.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
