Central A&M Superintendent Dr. DeeAnn Heck plans to do exactly what they did after Thanksgiving after Winter Break and start the 2nd semester remote just for one week 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-19 like symptoms or who were quarantined because of a sick family member.

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

It has been pretty well shown that schools are not COVID-19 superspreaders and because of that Dr. Heck thinks that a lot more of the larger school districts will move to in-person learning, but she went on to say that to have learning done in-person you have to have healthy adults.

Dr. DeeAnn Heck was a guest on the NEWSTALK WTIM Morning Show.