Another Macon County school district will start their post-winter break in remote learning.

Warrensburg-Latham Schools and Maroa-Forsyth Schools have announced in the last two weeks they will be going full remote-learning for two weeks following the winter break and recently, Central A&M Superintendent announced plans to do just a week, but Superintendent Dr. DeAnn Heck says this is exactly what they did after Thanksgiving to help keep any COVID-19 positive cases out of the school district.

After Central A&M came back after the week of remote learning after Thanksgiving, Dr. Heck says that they had over 20 kids out with COVID symptoms or who were quarantined because of a sick family member.

Dr. Heck points out the majority of positive COVID-19 cases that they’ve had have come from the middle school and high school level. 

Schools are not superspreaders of COVID and because of that, Dr. Heck believes a lot more of the larger school districts will move to in-person learning but adds to have learning done in-person you have to have healthy adults.