Demonstrators hold signs along Harnish Road Tuesday during a rally for the reopening for in-person learning at the Algonquin-based Community Community Unit District 300 Central Office in Algqonquin. (Matthew Apgar/Shaw Media)
Saying that remote learning has not been successful, a group of concerned parents and students from Algonquin-based Community Community Unit District 300 rallied outside the Center Office asking district officials to reopen to in-person learning.
District 300 has been remote since the beginning of the year because of COVID-19.
Several speakers at the rally said they were worried for children’s mental health and the social isolation they might feel from not seeing their friends.
One Algonquin resident, Sharon Vandermeir, said her grandchild, in kindergarten, is not learning anything.
“She gets distracted easily, she’s bored, she doesn’t like to sit in front of a computer for six hours a day,” Vandermeir said. “The kids need an education, and Zoom is not an education.”
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