Back to (Hybrid) School on Monday

Sumner County Schools will open doors to students on Monday, August 3rd. The return will be on a hybrid model that features students attending in-person two days a week and via online learning three days a week. After two weeks, students in grades K-5 will attend each day, while those in grades 6-12 will maintain the hybrid schedule until COVID-19 infection rates decrease significantly. It's possible the infection rate in Sumner County could rise, in which case all school for all students will be delivered online.

Here's more from NewsChannel5:

Sumner County Schools is taking a hybrid approach for the upcoming school year.

All students in the county will learn from home for three days and at school for two days for the first two weeks. If all goes according to plan, kids from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade will learn at school completely. Everyone else will remain in a hybrid schedule. However, the plan could always change depending on the COVID-19 case count.

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Bill Lee is Ready for Football

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is ready for football. Lee signed an executive order this week allowing the start of contact sports, including football, to coincide with the start of school.

The return of high school sports also coincides with a significant jump in the number of cases of COVID-19 in children -- all BEFORE schools are back in session.

Sumner County is slated to begin school on a hybrid schedule on August 3rd.

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Kids with COVID

NewsChannel5 reporter Phil Williams posted a spreadsheet with the COVID-19 case count in children ages 5-18. He breaks the data down by county. Sumner is number 6 in the state with 296 cases. This is with school out of session and less than two weeks before school is slated to start.

Here’s the info: