The governor's goal is consistent with the plans of some district officials in the area while others have already begun in-person classes for some grade levels.
Most districts have plans to utilize a combination of in-person and online instruction for both elementary and secondary educational classes. Students will be expected to wear masks at all times while in school buildings and they will most likely experience changes to prevent any crowd contact. Students can expect to eat lunch at their desks or in their individual classrooms rather than the school gym or cafeteria in an effort to slow the spread of the Cornoavirus which is currently at an all-time high across the country.
In Northville Public Schools, high school students were scheduled to return to a combined system of both in-person and virtual classes on Monday. Middle school students will also return to a hybrid/core model while elementary students are were scheduled to return to in-person classes Monday.
In the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools dictrict, elementary students will be in a remote-learning format until at least Jan. 15, officials said. Remote learning resumed Jan. 4 following a two-week holiday recess.
A plan to return middle school and high school students to in-person learning was still unresolved last week. Remote learning for both middle school and high school students in the district have been in place since the beginning of the school year.
Romulus Community Schools Board of Education members were expected to vote this month on a plan to return students to in-person learning. The district has been offering virtual classes since early last year and voted Oct. 26 to remain in virtual learning through the end of the first semester, Jan. 22, 2021.
In the Van Buren Community School District, students have been issued Chromebooks at all grade levels to continue off-site or virtual learning. The board of education members and school board members are expected to meet this month to again discuss a schedule for returning to in-person classes at all buildings.
In the Wayne-Westland Community Schools, in-person classes have been suspended since early last year. District officials said they plan to return to in person classes for the first time since March on Jan. 19.
