'Full In-Person Instruction' Returns To Gwinnett Schools In Fall

GWINNETT COUNTY, GA — Almost all Gwinnett County Public School students will be back in classrooms this fall — albeit with face masks — according to a district associate superintendent.

The families of about 4,000 students — about 2 percent of the total number of students — are choosing to remain online for the coming school year, said Al Taylor, Gwinnett County associate superintendent of school improvement and operations. Families had until April 4 to choose in-person or online learning.

“For all intents and purposes, we’re back to full in-person instruction in the fall,” Taylor said to The Gwinnett Daily Post.

Still, procedures to stem the spread of COVID-19 will remain in place. That includes mask wearing, contact tracing and mandatory quarantines where necessary.

This fall’s numbers represent the latest stage in a gradual return to normalcy for Gwinnett County’s public schools. Last spring, according to the Gwinnett newspaper, all students were learning online. By fall, that number had fallen to roughly more than half of all students, and by spring it was down to about 40 percent.

““It is going to be an acclimation process,” Taylor said to The Gwinnett Daily Post. “In some buildings, students have gotten adjusted to only having six peers in their classroom, so there’s going to be a transition period for us as a district as a whole.”

Gwinnett County has Georgia's largest school district, with almost 180,000 students.

Read the story in The Gwinnett Daily Post.