Omicron has closed classrooms for 1 in 3 Portland area students, upending kids’ and working parents’ lives – DBN Health News

Omicron has closed classrooms for 1 in 3 Portland area students, upending kids’ and working parents’ lives

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01.15.22

A woman stands in center frame, picking up paper bags from a cart to frame left that is full of them. Behind her, to frame right, is a rack full of many additional paper bags — Debbie Rowely, a cook for David Douglas School District’s Nutrition Services, distributes free meals to families at David Douglas High School on Fri., Jan. 14, 2022, while the school was closed.The Oregonian

Dorothy Spence suddenly found herself a work-from-home, stay-at-home mom with her three children by her side.

Her youngest two, ages 6 months and 23 months, because of coronavirus exposure at their day care centers. Her oldest, age 8, because Parkrose School District joined a growing list of districts nationwide this past week to temporarily cancel school or shift to remote instruction as the omicron variant of COVID-19 forced a rash of absences.

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