March 16, 2021 For younger students, it’s back to the classroom Rusty Rae/News-Register ## Reading instructor Megan Whitaker points the way to students as they hop off the bus and head back to classes at Columbus Elementary School Monday morning, the first day of hybrid learning in the McMinnville School District.
Large yellow buses rolled through McMinnville and Lafayette Monday as elementary students returned to classrooms in the McMinnville School District. It was the first day of in-person classes in a year. School buildings closed as of March 13, 2020, because of the coronavirus pandemic, and nearly all McMinnville students have been studying via distance learning since then.