Athens Clarke County Parents

Greetings, all. We hope you are enjoying this nice day, which is basically the last nice day since we updated you LAST Wednesday. We feel bad for all the adapted learning students and their parents, who have been waiting months to get back to school and then ... had a snow day on Tuesday. Such are the times.

All appears to be well on track for the return of K-2 students on March 1, with other age groups following afterward. We've attached the re-opening plan, and we encourage you to go to the CCSD re-opening update site for further information https://www.clarke.k12.ga.us/Domain/2572 . We've also found talking to teachers and administrators at our own children's schools instructive, to see what they need, what they're short on, how we can be of help. We know this is an old adage from early on in the pandemic, but it's still true: We are all in this together.

All right, it's time for our weekly post on the COVID numbers in Clarke County. You will be pleased to note that the news here is unequivocally good.

February 11 478
February 12 440
February 13 418
February 14 408
February 15 414
February 16 410
February 17 385

(To remind: The numbers here are positive cases per 100,000 residents over a rolling two-week period, the metric that Georgia DPH uses and the one that CCSD has said all along it is tracking most closely.)

This is a remarkable drop in cases. That 385 number is the lowest we have been at since December 3. The number has essentially been cut in half over the last two weeks. And the trends show even more room for improvement. It's good news. We continue to move in the right direction. We thank the CCSD board for recognizing this trend, and acting accordingly. We're almost there, everyone.

We hope everyone stays safe and well, and, as always, please email us your concerns at [email protected] if you have any questions or anything you'd like us to follow up on. Have a great day, everyone.