Four In Five Bartow County School Students Will Learn In Person

CARTERSVILLE, GA — While other Georgia school districts will start their school years entirely online, only about one in five Bartow County students won’t be in a classroom this fall.

According to The Daily Tribune News, 19 percent of Bartow County’s 13,500 will be tied to their computers at home. The rest will be learning in person.

Almost 2,500 students applied to learn from home for at least the first nine weeks of the new school year.

Deputy Superintendent David Chiprany, who shared the results with Bartow County’s school board on July 20, said that the school system will start in “green,” — no or low spread of COVID-19 as defined by the Georgia Department of Education and the Georgia Department of Public Health.

If conditions should rise back to “red,” the district will revert to online only as it did last spring, Chiprany said.

The teaching plan, which allows for flexibility as the pandemic evolves, has been in the works since June.

While most classes will be available online, some that require hands-on instruction — such as welding or culinary arts — will be offered in person only.

Bartow County’s first day of school is Aug. 5. Distance learners officially begin on Aug. 10, giving students a week to set up their computers and go through orientation.

As of Monday, Bartow County ranked 26th among 159 Georgia counties with 1,367 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The county also has reported 55 deaths related to the disease. Most who died were either elderly or medically compromised.

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