CA School Board To Vote On Excluding 7th Graders From Classrooms

SAN JOSE, CA — A California school district will vote on Thursday whether to exclude seventh-graders from returning to in-person classrooms. The board could also vote to keep students in distance learning, Fox News reported.

The vote will take place at the Oak Grove School District in San Jose, which offers classes for grades K-8. The school has remained limited to distance learning since the pandemic first upended life in the Golden State, Fox News reported.

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Within the district's proposed plan, the district would bring students back to campus for just half of the week and in different cohorts. But seventh graders would be excluded from returning to campus.

At a March 11th meeting, the school board came to the conclusion that schools would face difficulties enforcing coronavirus guidelines on preteens in both seventh and eighth-graders, Fox News reported.

Board members also said that eighth-graders should be allowed to attend in-person classes to prepare for high school.