Clark County school districts, including Camas and Washougal, to bring kindergarteners back to classrooms

Kindergarten students in Camas and Washougal — as well as in the Battle Ground, Evergreen, Green Mountain, Hockinson, La Center, Ridgefield and Vancouver school districts — will return to small-group, in-person instruction “in the coming weeks,” according to a news release sent to media this afternoon. 

“Bringing small groups of kindergarten students in to classrooms for in-person education is a cautious and incremental approach that fits within state health department guidance,” Dr. Alan Melnick, Clark County Public Health director and county health officer, stated in the news release. “With small group sizes and continued preventive measures, such as mask-wearing and physical distancing, we believe in-person education is safe for both students and staff because children this young are less likely to transmit the virus to others.”