Schools continue dance with Covid
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Jana Peterson
Ava Mead catches up on her schoolwork Tuesday on her front porch, taking advantage of warm fall weather to study with her school-issued iPad. Cloquet middle- and high school students started hybrid learning on Wednesday. Mead, a middle school student, said she'd rather go to school in person but doesn't mind working from home.
Some local schools are reacting to a rise in local Covid-19 cases with a change in learning styles, while others are holding steady, largely because they started the school year doing something other than in-person learning for all grades.
The trigger for the change is a "county health number" put out by the Minnesota Department of Health every Thursday morning that shows a two-week average of Covid cases per 10,000 people. Last Thursday, that number came in at 11.24, crossing the benchmark of 10 per 10,000 that requires secondary students to adopt a hybrid learning style, while elementary...
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