Class of 2021 … forever? You can attribute the above punctuation to the coronavirus. The firast day of school is 12 days out. If the 12th-graders of Monongalia County have […]
Author: Jim Bissett/ The Dominion Post
Mon Schools employee has COVID scare
While it began bumpy, the ride is seemingly smoothing out for the Monongalia County Schools transportation employee whose initial positive test for COVID-19 sparked fears he may have also exposed […]
Mon Schools offer options
70% of parents favor in-class learning, 23% prefer distance It’s going to be blended-learning. Some 70% of Monongalia County parents have said they want to continue sending their children to […]
Petition: Go remote for first 9 weeks
750 names, teacher testimonials part of effort to pivot online A Monongalia County kindergarten teacher will be part of the roll call during tonight’s Board of Education meeting — even […]
Students pitch ways to improve the state’s foster care system
Hosted by WVU’s Encova Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship In the COVID-19 summer of 2020, it probably couldn’t have been anything but a mask. At least that’s what Ana Galvez […]
COVID-19 czar announces child being treated for MIS-C in state
If you’re a parent fretting about sending your kid back to school Sept. 8 — the state’s COVID-19 czar gave you one more thing to fret about Friday afternoon. Not […]
Schools consider plans for spring
Like a pandemic version of Alice in Wonderland, the already fluid situation concerning COVID-19 and Mon Schools keeps getting — well — fluider and fluider. The district late in […]
Voting is a ‘fundamental right’
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane. That’s “DDT,” for those of you too young to know. In Wisconsin in the late 1950s, all the farmers knew then was that the insecticide worked. After just one […]
Mon teachers return to school to prep for class
Monday was first day back since pandemic After five months of echoing hallways, schools across Monongalia County suddenly got noisy again Monday. That was when teachers and staffers reported to […]
Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Right to Vote
West Virginia women key to ratification of 19th amendment “Now what would you do in a case like this?” That was the caption-question of a postcard that circulated across the […]
