Georgia’s Cherokee County School District has send nearly 900 students and staff home into quarantine after holding in-person classes for just six days due to a coronavirus outbreak, the Atlanta Constitution-Journal reports.
The 826 students represents 2% of the total enrollment of the school district, which also employs 4,500 people. The students represent virtually every class from kindergarten through 12th grade. The announcement from the school district comes one day after Georgia Governor Brian Kemp touted the success of reopening the schools.
“I think quite honestly this week went real well other than a couple of virtual photos,” Kemp said yesterday, referring to a photograph taken by a student in the crowded hallways of a high school that ultimately shut down for two days because of a coronavirus outbreak. The photo was not of anything “virtual”; it was of real students walking shoulder-to-shoulder in a real hallway of a real high school.