SCS returns to school amid COVID surge
A student does class work at Bruce Elementary on Monday, Aug. 9, Shelby County Schools’ first day of school. (Brad Vest/Special to the Daily Memphian)
Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray arrives at Bruce Elementary during Shelby County Schools’ first day of class on Monday, Aug. 9. Ray and members of his leadership team pulled up to the school in a school bus with Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration” as their soundtrack, just as they did in March when about a third of students returned to in-person classrooms. (Brad Vest/Special to the Daily Memphian)
Students were separated by sneeze barriers in classrooms at Bruce Elementary on Monday, Aug. 9, Shelby County Schools’ first day of class. (Brad Vest/Special to the Daily Memphian)
Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray visits a classroom at Bruce Elementary on Monday, Aug. 9. (Brad Vest/Special to the Daily Memphian)
Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray greets students at Bruce Elementary on Monday, Aug. 9. (Brad Vest/Special to the Daily Memphian)
For the first time since March 2020, all Shelby County Schools students were expected to return to in-person classes amid rising COVID-19 cases.
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Daja E. Henry is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a graduate of Howard University and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and currently is a general assignment reporter.
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