Kindergarten students will join pre-K kids as they return for half day in-person classes on Oct. 5. | Stock Photo
Kindergarten students will join pre-K kids as they return for half day in-person classes on Oct. 5. | Stock Photo
Guilford County pre-kindergarten students left their siblings behind as they returned to classrooms after a month of online instruction.
Kindergarten students were to follow their lead on Oct. 5.
Superintendent Sharon Contreras said parents of pre-K and kindergarten students decided if they wanted to send their children back to in-person instruction for half-day classes before students in other grades returned to the buildings. She had told the county board of education that she expected approximately 55% of kindergarten and 45% of pre-K students to attend in person, the Greensboro News & Record reported on Sept. 29.
Since March, classes were held remotely when the COVID-19 pandemic prompted school districts across the nation to empty schools and turn to remote learning.
Jefferson Elementary School pre-K teacher Nidhi Kumar pre-K saw a significant change with these students. None of them cried on their first day in the classroom. But she had been teaching them online via video for a month, the Greensboro News & Record reported.
The rest of elementary and middle school students won't return to in-person instruction until at least late October. High school students aren't expected to leave remote learning behind until late January.
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