Bad weather plan for Somerset public schools

 
"Say it isn't so" might by what many students are thinking.

A final decision may be made during a Somerset County Board of Education meeting on October 18th on a plan for virtual learning on days when schools otherwise would be closed due to adverse weather conditions.

(Crisfield-Somerset County Times)

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Days off from doing school work because of inclement weather may become a thing of the past for students after the Somerset County Board of Education moved through first reader a virtual instruction plan that would allow teaching to occur online when students are not in school.

Lessons and/or assignments through a device provided by the schools would be for a minimum of four hours for up to eight total inclement weather days this school year. Secondary school students would attend from 8 a.m. to noon and elementary students from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.