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The answer isn’t simple or singular.
All schools have state permission to return to in-person learning after MDHHS’s order closing Michigan’s high schools expired Dec. 20.
Yet individual districts have their own criteria for returning. Local public school districts vary in how they are teaching students in the 2020-21 school year.
Some metro Detroit school districts have offered classroom instruction virtually for the entire school year. Many other districts have offered some sort of face-to-face learning model, at least for some students.
It s been a rollercoaster for educators, support staff and families alike as COVID-19 cases in ebb and flow in Michigan, prompting ever-changing decisions from local school boards and the state health department allowing or prohibiting in-person learning, sports and more.
Google glitch, snowstorm bring virtual learning frustrations
By Kantele Franko - Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) It wasn’t the weather that delayed school this week, at least not the first time.
Students in the Northeast might be giddily anticipating a storm that the National Weather Service says could drop a foot or more of snow across the region Wednesday and Thursday.
The glitch that came Monday, though, wasn’t in the forecast.
“Google is down across the globe, which is the COVID version of a snow day,” Superintendent Joe Clark tweeted to followers from his Nordonia Hills City School District in northern Ohio. “Until it’s back up, Nordonia students, read some books, play outside, and help your parents around the house.”
Relative says Canton 8-year-old died after being shot while father was cleaning his gun
By Ingrid Kelley and FOX 2 Staff
Published
CANTON, Mich. (FOX 2) - Police in Canton say an 8-year-old boy has died after being shot inside his home Tuesday afternoon.
Police say a firearm was discharged around 4 p.m. at a home on Old Michigan Avenue yesterday. The child, identified as Jack Bennett, was taken to the hospital, where he later died early this morning.
Community in shock after boy dies in suspected accidental shooting
A relative says that the boy s father was cleaning his gun when it discharged.
Google glitch, snowstorm bring virtual learning frustrations
by Kantele Franko, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 16, 2020 1:58 pm EDT
Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 2:14 pm EDT
FILE - A child runs across a sidewalk in front of New York s City Hall decorated with graffiti in favor of keeping open public schools, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. A Google services outage this week and potential impacts from a snowstorm in the Northeast highlight the fragile chain of connectivity that s powering widespread remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic. One Ohio school superintendent called Monday s Google outage “the COVID version of a snow day. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)