COVID Numbers Force Madison HC and MS to Distance Learning This Week

Madison County High School and Middle School are on distance learning this week.

In a letter to parents and caregivers, Friday School Superintendent Michael Williams said that there are positive cases in all of their schools.

Williams said a week ago on Monday, August 16, 30 positive student cases were reported in our schools (less than 1%).

However, on Thursday, August 19, there were 60 reported positive cases.

He said COVID cases in the middle school and high school had increased accounting for over half of the positive cases reported.

Williams said however that the elementary schools in Madison County would continue with in-class learning but with extra COVID mitigation strategies in place.

Those include limiting lunchroom capacity to 50%, plexiglass available in classrooms, desks spaced apart as much as possible, masks will be worn on school buses and in school when social distancing is not possible.

Additionally, he said each school has a mask break plan that was implemented last spring to allow students time throughout the day to remove their masks.

Williams added that school nutrition services will be available next week, and extracurricular activities will continue as scheduled.

He said the goal is to return middle and high school students to in-person learning on Monday, August 30th.