Students and teachers are being pulled both ways this school year, as virtual students share classrooms with in-person students.  Both sets of students are being ignored at times, while teachers are sick with worry at not being able to meet all of their students’ needs throughout the day.  

In-person students are at times sitting with nothing to do as teachers try to make sure virtual students are learning and feel involved. Virtual students sometimes feel left behind as they watch their classes from afar.  Teachers are being let down by the county as they are given an impossible task that our superintendent assured us wouldn’t happen.  

During the 2021-2022 school year, we need dedicated virtual classrooms and teachers in each grade level.  If students have to be individually quarantined from in-person classrooms, those students can attend virtual school with dedicated virtual teachers and submit work online to their home teachers.  We have to address this now, before our students and teachers are put through this for another entire school year.  Take the cameras out of our classrooms and let our teachers have their classrooms back.