High school seniors react to returning to classrooms
High school seniors react to returning to classrooms By Bernadette Heier | February 19, 2021 at 7:03 PM CST - Updated February 19 at 7:03 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) Last year, when schools first closed due to the pandemic, many thought it’d be for a short period of time.
“It was really weird, it didn’t feel real. It kind of just felt like a break, like oh this is a two-week thing we will be back,” Mankato West High School senior Mattea Burmeister said.
While the switch to online and hybrid learning posed its challenges, students say it was the social aspect that was particularly tough, as well as the canceled traditions.
Mankato secondary students return to the classroom
Mankato secondary students return to the classroom By Kelsey Barchenger | February 11, 2021 at 7:14 PM CST - Updated February 11 at 7:14 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) After a few schedule changes, secondary students in the Mankato Public School District are back in the classroom Thursday as they transition into a hybrid learning model.
This change comes about a month after elementary students transitioned back to in-person learning.
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Paul Peterson: We’re tracking two-week data, we’re tracking 14-day trends, but we’re also looking at our internal numbers, and we saw such a nice decline in last week’s numbers, knowing full well where those numbers were going to be today, we didn’t see a reason to wait another week before bringing kids back.