The embattled school year took off on a bumpy note in many states in America with students and teachers testing positive for the Coronavirus and facing mass quarantines.
In Georgia, Woodstock High School reported that 14 positive and 15 pending cases sent 289 students and staffers into quarantine, while Etowah High School recorded 59 positive cases, prompting a two-week quarantine for 925 students and staff members.
Both schools have now closed their doors until Aug. 31.
The Cherokee County School District both schools are a part of, called the closures “necessary precautions as we work to continue in-person learning in our other 38 schools and centers.”
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In Mississippi, which reportedly has the country’s highest COVID-test positivity rate — referring to the percentage of people who test positive of everyone tested, as defined by CNN — 29 schools had cases among about 40 people. That sent hundreds into quarantine, state health officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs told the Jackson Free Press.
Educators wary of returning to their physical classrooms in the areas are writing their wills and updating trust documents to protect their families in the event of death from COVID-19, teachers and education unions told Yahoo Life.
One instructor was said to have written postmortem letters to her family, expressing her love and apologizing for missing life milestones.
In recent weeks, some teachers wrote their obituaries to protest back-to-school plans and state pandemic guidelines, and held demonstrations with fake gravestones and coffins.
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