Students in Murray County, Georgia, will learn from home for the remainder of the semester as COVID-19 cases continue to grow in the county at state-leading levels.
Murray County is seeing the highest rate of growth for new coronavirus cases in Georgia. That reality is forcing Murray County Public Schools to shift to a distanced learning model for middle and high school students through the end of the semester.
Superintendent Steve Loughridge said Wednesday afternoon the decision to move to a remote learning schedule was due to an increase in active COVID-19 cases for students and faculty and the growing number of students who had to be quarantined because of close contact to those positive cases.
Loughridge added having enough staff members to stay in schools was getting tough to do because of how many faculty members had to quarantine.
As of Wednesday there were 10 students and seven staff members who were positive with COVID-19. That forced 269 students and at least 15 staff members to quarantine.