ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. — After spending the last two weeks learning online at home, students in the Rockdale County School system will return to in-person learning next week.
Rockdale County Schools announced that students will head back to school in person on Monday after spending the weeks of Oct. 7-11 and Oct. 14-18 learning online due to the chemical plume in the aftermath of the fire at the BioLab facility.
The fire happened on Sunday, Sept. 29, which sent a plume of smoke and chemicals containing chlorine in the sky across metro Atlanta for days and forced a shelter-in-place order for residents for much of the last nearly three weeks. However, the shelter-in-place was lifted by Rockdale County officials during a Thursday afternoon news conference.
Students in the Rockdale school system were out of school the week after the plume due to an already-planned fall break.
You can read about the full plume update given by Rockdale County officials by clicking on the link below or by listening to the full news conference at the bottom of the story.
