by Larry Chowning –
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Middlesex County Public Schools (MCPS) will open the 2020-2021 school year this Monday, Aug. 31, under a (state) phase one plan using “virtual” instruction for at least the first six weeks.
How to start the 2020-2021 school year has been a challenge for the school board as school officials spent much of the summer developing a hybrid style startup plan — a staggered four-day-week with two days face-to-face in-school instruction, two days of virtual instruction and Wednesdays with no instruction and used as a teacher workday and a school-wide cleaning day.
School board members voted in July to open schools using the (state) phase two plan that allows a hybrid start. However, VDH metrics in August showed Middlesex County’s coronavirus case rate at a “substantial” level…
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