Leaders in the Arlington County Schools in Northern Virginia faced angry parents during a school board meeting Thursday as families demanded to know why students were not being offered more opportunities for in-person classes.
“I see the adults hired and elected to education my children doing nothing,” said one father, Aaron Asimakopoulos.
The school system has been relatively slow to respond to recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which said that students can safely sit just 3 feet apart in the classroom during the coronavirus pandemic as long as they wear masks.
It represented a turn away from the 6-foot standard that sharply limited how many students some schools can accommodate.