MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Around 7,500 Monongalia County Schools students are back in the classroom five days a week, and the leading school system official is considering a limited number of outbreaks a success.
“We’ve been back in school now for several weeks in the five-day version,” Superintendent Eddie Campbell told MetroNews affiliate WAJR-AM last week. “We’ve got a lot of happy kids, we’ve got a lot of happy parents, and our teachers are thrilled to see their kids back.”
Students have been balancing remote instruction with some in-person lessons over the last year. Campbell said administrators, teachers and students showed resilience while dealing with the changes.
“We’re pleased with that,” he said. “We think that’s a result of the strictness and the diligence we’ve played out with the contact tracing and quarantining.”
The school system held a vaccination clinic Friday at Morgantown High School. Campbell noted the vaccine allows for guidelines to be eased.
“As the CDC says, once you’ve had your two vaccines and you’re two weeks out from that second vaccine, if you are exposed to a positive case you do not have to quarantine,” he said.