UNC cancels in-person and remote classes Thursday. Wake cancels in-person classes.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has canceled all in-person and remote classes for Thursday due to the impending hazardous weather.
Mandatory employees should report to work, the school said Wednesday night, but all others should remain off campus and if possible work remotely.
Classes are expected to resume Friday.
The Wake County school system had already canceled in-person classes on Thursday while Durham and Orange counties won’t even have any online classes.
Wake County announced that in-person instruction, school activities and athletics are canceled for Thursday due to a forecast of freezing rain. It will now become an asynchronous learning day in which there will be no live online classes “due to the possibility of power failures and hazardous road conditions in some parts of the county.”
Durham Public Schools announced that, because of the threat of inclement weather, all school facilities and remote learning on Thursday have been canceled. It will now become a teacher workday. The district, which is not offering any in-person classes at this time, says the day will not be made up.
Orange County announced that there will be no in-person or remote learning Thursday due to the possibility of power outages. All school buildings will be closed.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools says Thursday’s remote learning may become an asynchronous learning day if teachers or students can’t connect to online learning due to internet or power outages. Students will not be counted absent for missing classes due to inclement weather, internet or power outages.
All Chapel HIll-Carrboro school based events, including athletic events, will be canceled.
By Thursday morning, a half-inch coat of ice could cover the Triangle’s northern counties, adding dangerous weight to trees and power lines, the News & Observer reported. The ice could lead to power outages.
Wake students returned to school this week
The cancellation of in-person classes in Wake County comes the same week that all school buildings resumed face-to-face classes for the first time in 11 months.
Thousands of Wake County traditional-calendar students returned to campus on Wednesday, joining year-round and modified-calendar students who came back on Monday. It was the first day of in-person classes since late December for elementary and middle school students and the first day of face-to-face classes since March 2020 for high school students.
Teachers will communicate assignments to students to complete on their own on Thursday.
This story was originally published February 17, 2021 at 2:43 PM.
