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Salt Lake City schools will start the year with all classes online — making it the only district in the state not to have any students returning in person.
The move, approved by the district’s board of education Thursday, is a reaction to the high number of coronavirus infections that continue to trouble Utah’s capital. After more than two hours of discussion, members decided it was less risky to keep kids at home at least for the first month back.
“Getting our children back in classrooms is important,” said the board’s president, Melissa Ford, in the virtual meeting. “And we intend to do that as soon as it’s safe.”
The decision came in a much tamer meeting than the chaos that colored the debate on the topic last week and ended with an impasse. One member, though, Michael Nemelka, still voted against the plan in the 6-1 decision. And, with his camera turned off, he said he will continue to believe that teachers who want to continue with remote instruction are “lazy.”
The Salt Lake Tribune will update this developing story.
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