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Ohio County Schools Set to Go to Four-Day In-Person Classes Next Week

File Photo – Warwood Middle School students are shown in this 2019 file photo working with Chromebook computers.

WHEELING — Students in Ohio County Schools should plan to be in their classrooms for in-person instruction four days next week.

Students and parents learned Wednesday the school district will be operating on a “Level 1” designation starting Sept. 21.

This means all students will go to their school buildings on Monday and Tuesday, do remote learning on Wednesday as the schools are cleaned, then be in their classrooms again on Thursday and Friday.

The school district’s decision came after the map updated on Wednesday by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources lowered Ohio County Schools COVID-19 level from “gold” to the “yellow” level. In-school instruction is permitted at both the “gold” and “yellow” levels.

Ohio County Schools presently has been operating on a “Level 2,” a hybrid level at which half the students in the school district were in the classroom on Mondays and Thursdays, and the other half on Tuesdays and Fridays.

“Currently, we don’t have any cases in our schools,” Assistant Superintendent Rick Jones said Wednesday night. “I believe we just turned to yellow on the map (Wednesday) afternoon, so with those two things happening we’re going to try four days next week and see what happens through the week.”

Jones plans to make decisions on Wednesdays regarding in-school instruction for the following week so families can prepare.

The “Level 1” call for next week remains in effect so long as the county’s number of COVID-19 cases remains low, and the county’s designation on the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources map remains “gold,” “yellow” or the lowest designation of “green.”

The WVDHHR will next update the map this weekend.

If the county’s designation were to increase to the higher “orange” or “red,” this would indicate high levels of the COVID-19 virus in the county. At these levels, in-school learning is suspended and students would go to all remote learning at home

On the days they are not at school, students are expected to do remote learning.

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