Michigan Schools Closed for Remainder of Academic Year
Source: WOOD TV
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ordered all K-12 school buildings to close, ending face-to-face learning for the remainder of the school year amid the coronavirus outbreak.
I know this is hard and I know this raises a lot of questions from parents and students, Whitmer said during Thursdays news briefing. This is the best thing that we can do for the health of our children, for the tens of thousands of educators who work in our schools.
Under the executive order issued Thursday, teachers and school employees will be paid for the remainder of the school year.
High school seniors will be able to graduate and other students will move up a grade, as long as they were on track to do so.
Read more: https://www.woodtv.com/health/coronavirus/michigan-k-12-schools-decision-coronavirus/
My daughter is a Senior this year. I myself had a pretty bad Senior year but I can't even begin to imagine what she's going through.
justgamma
(3,666 posts)But thank goodness. My Grandkids suddenly lost their mother last summer exactly 1 week after the oldest graduated from high school. The youngest is only 11. Now my son needs heart surgery, but it is postponed until further notice. I'm scared to death for them all. I just can't imagine what it would do to the 3 of them if something happened to their dad too.
I will blame the idiot in the WH.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)They've moved it once already.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)They are out of school through the end of April right now. I'm hoping they do go back after that. Graduation is early June and what we are currently being told is that if they have to cancel graduation they will try to have it later on in the summer. They do summer school graduation in August anyhow, so that's a possibility. I do want him to have a graduation. I think it is a shame to go to school that many years and not have a graduation ceremony. Everyone else got one. They deserve one too. Honestly, I want it for myself too. He's my first kid to get to this point, so it's a big deal to me. It's like the ceremony that everyone is supposed to get when they become an adult.