Students Return To The Classroom IIn Union County

30% of students in Union County will stay home and attend class online.

School staff say they are ready for the year to began, while keeping children safe.

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New tonight at 6-- despite a recent up tick in covid-19 cases in union county --- students will return to in- person classes -- on monday.

Tonight in a story--- you'll only see on 44news - reporter tyler druin gives us a sneak peak at what parents and students can expect-- "i am very excited for the first day of school" this will be seventh grade teacher joy hunley - second year educating children in the classroom "i think we are all very excited to get back into the classroom, the first day of school and see what our new normal is going to be" monday union county schools will return to in classroom instruction - "we are going to use a phased in approach to ease our students and staff into the building" administrators put several plans in place to help protect students - faculty and staff - "it will be scaled back for the first week, on monday and tuesday, the blue group will come which is half of the students who opted in for in person instruction" every student here in union county will be required to have their temp checked before entering the school building - all they will have to do is walk up here, it will scan take you temp, successful, mine was 98.4 they will then be able to enter the building" "all of our students will be masked all the time in the building unless they are eating or drinking' like many school districts across the tri-state lockers will not be used - students are required to bring this own refillable water bottles - the gym at union county middle school will be used as cafe over flow to allow proper social distancing "this allows us to have a small amount of students in the building, to allow them to get use to everyting and allow us to trouble shoot" according to district leaders - 30 % of students plan to stay enrolled in the online virtual option "my girlfriend has three school age children from 9-18 that attend union county schools, they're being kept home because of the increase in covid-19 here in union county - in the last 14 days covid-19 cases have surged in union county, the highest spike in covid-19 cases for the county since the pandemic began "we are ready to see our students and we hope they're ready to see us" in union county, tyler druin 44news.

New tonight at 6-- the henderson