Hardin County Schools is resuming five-day-a-week in-person classes later in March, the district announced Tuesday.
Elementary and middle school students will return to the full in-person schedule March 22, and high school students will resume the five-day-a-week schedule April 12, according to a Hardin County Schools news release.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continued, the district to the south of Louisville joined many other Kentucky schools in mostly operating on a hybrid schedule featuring alternating days of in-person and virtual instruction during the 2020-21 school year.
“It has been our goal since March 2020 to bring our students back to receive five days of in-person instruction,” Hardin County Schools Superintendent Teresa Morgan said in the release. “The patience and devotion to success exhibited by our students, staff and families have been absolutely remarkable. We cannot adequately put into words how excited we are to be able to make this step.
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The changes have required a lot of patience, Principal Karla Davis said. We re going to be welcoming in kindergartners who ve never been to school at all, so this will all be new to them, she said. But we ll treat this just like the beginning of the school year, and we ll establish expectations. We ll model. We ll practice a whole lot those first few days, and we ll have everybody ready.
All students, including those whose parents have chosen to keep them home in distance learning, will be able to receive meals for free through June 30, even though the school year ends May 27.