College students and workers in Fulton County Colleges and Atlanta Public Colleges will attend courses remotely on Dec. 6 as lots of the faculties will function polling locations in a statewide run-off election with a U.S. Senate seat on the poll.
The day initially was slated to be an in-person faculty day, in keeping with an FCS press launch.
Atlanta Public Colleges additionally introduced that will probably be a digital studying day for all faculties and district departments. Twenty-nine APS services will probably be energetic polling stations, with three further places serving as poll drop-off websites.
APS will pivot to digital studying that day “to help high quality instructing and studying whereas balancing the security and safety of students and workers,” an APS press launch mentioned.
Working remotely will preserve college students and workers protected. Because the run-off election is predicted to attract excessive voter turnout, numerous individuals will go to faculty campuses. The extra visitors may create campus congestion with packed parking tons, which might have an effect on buses and automotive rider lanes, in keeping with FCS.
The college districts will return to in-person studying on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022.
Neither of the candidates for the U.S. Senate seat – incumbent Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker – obtained greater than 50 p.c of the vote, so by election regulation it goes to a runoff election.
College students will obtain path from their faculties and lecturers for distant studying directions.