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Oglethorpe County Schools will take precautionary measures due to the COVID-19 omicron variant, but students will return to school as planned on Jan. 10.
Superintendent Beverley Levine said the system plans to temporarily restrict non-essential visitors, limit field trips and have students eat in their classrooms. The system will also reduce large group gatherings and social distance to the extent possible.
Levine also said the schools would be fogged weekly.
“We are going to return to a lot of the strategies that we used to start the school year, with our No. 1 goal being to keep students and staff safe while being in school,” Levine said in an email. “We will continue to monitor our COVID numbers closely and adjust as needed.”
There have been 123 COVID-19 cases in Oglethorpe County the past two weeks through Jan. 4, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health. Forty-three percent of the county is fully vaccinated.
Teachers start back on Jan. 6 and staff returns on Jan. 7.