Students in Snake River’s Rockford Elementary school got to attend school in person for only a few days, before community spread of COVID-19 among staff members sent them home for two weeks of remote learning.
In the second week of in-person learning, more than a third of the students at Grand View Elementary had been exposed to COVID-19 after a couple of students tested positive for the virus. Students at that school are learning remotely through Sept. 7.
Idaho Ed News reports Compass Public Charter School, in Meridian, is also closed until after the Labor Day holiday due to “substantial spread” of COVID-19 within the school community.
COVID-19 is disrupting in-person learning for some Idaho students in districts without mask mandates, as the virus continues to rip through the Gem State and cases climb among school-aged kids.
About 163 districts and charters are not requiring mask for their 275,000 students.
