Petition asks board to reconsider returning to full-time instruction
More than 2,000 people have signed an online petition asking the Cleveland County Board of Education to reconsider its decision to send some of the county's youngest students back to school this month.
In December the school board voted 8-1 for a plan to send all prekindergarten through fourth-grade students back to five days of instruction following the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
With coronavirus case counts climbing to a critical point, some have now expressed concerns with that plan. A petition created by Amanda Buchanan, media specialist at Shelby Intermediate School and parent to a fourth-grader, and shared on change.org has garnered more than 2,500 signatures in less than a week.