WATERTOWN, S.D. — After a two-week shift to distance learning from home, Watertown High School students return to the classroom on Monday.
A spike in COVID-19 numbers caused school district officials to get kids out of high school classrooms last month. Superintendent Dr. Jeff Danielsen said the situation has quieted down.
“What we were hoping to see was once we didn’t have the students around each other, was that our numbers would just keep going down,” Danielson said. He said the high school is down to 17 positive cases after roughly 40 at the peak of the outbreak.
The shift to distance learning applied only to the high school. Danielsen said extra-curricular activities that were put on hold at the high school will resume Monday.
(Mike Tanner, KWAT, contributed this report.)
