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Two Chattanooga area school districts closing all of next week due to COVID-19 cases

Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / Principal Tiffany Earvin, left, greets students, arriving by bus, at Orchard Knob Middle School. Orchard Knob Middle School started the 2021-2022 school year under a Hamilton County Schools system wide mask mandate on August 9, 2021, because of the surge in the Delta variant of the Coronavirus. Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / Principal Tiffany Earvin, left, greets students, arriving by bus, at Orchard Knob Middle School. Orchard Knob Middle School started the 2021-2022 school year under a Hamilton County Schools system wide mask mandate on August 9, 2021, because of the surge in the Delta variant of the Coronavirus.

By Staff Report September 3, 2021 3 min read

Three school districts in Southeast Tennessee will close for part or all of next week because of current or anticipated COVID-19 cases.

Grundy County Schools and Marion County Schools will close all schools the entirety of next week and will both use “stockpile days” – set aside for inclement weather – for the closures.

There will be no instruction, as Gov. Bill Lee has banned districtwide virtual learning as a way to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

The closure for Grundy County Schools will start next week and includes canceling extracurricular activities.

Marion County Schools closed Thursday and will remain closed through next week to deep clean facilities, suspending extracurricular activities and rescheduling football games.