![]() “We’re going through this feeling of deja vu, but in reality things are better this time out,” said Hung, who has two children in elementary school. Staff is getting sick, and it’s just a spread that’s alarming.”īoston school officials have not announced whether children will have to return to virtual classes - an unwelcome prospect for Alejandra Hung and his Boston family. ![]() And all of a sudden we’re seeing infection rates skyrocket,” he said, “It’s affecting children much more than previous variants, so children are getting sick. “Just about a month ago, we had about 98 percent of the students in this country attending school in person, and omicron has brought about just a huge reversal in that process. Domenech, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators. “There is great concern because we had been doing so well,” said Daniel A. Schools in Mount Vernon, New York, and elsewhere also reverted back to virtual instruction. On Friday, one of the largest school districts on the East Coast, the Prince George’s County district in Maryland, just outside Washington, said it would cancel in-person instruction in favor of virtual classes because of rising COVID-19 cases at its campuses. Most schools across the country are keeping classrooms open, despite the new threat from omicron, but some school districts have moved to limit in-person instruction as a precaution.
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