Back to School: What a Difference 12 Months Makes

Wichita County students will return to school Thursday, August 20. This year’s First Day of School, however, will look nothing like any that have come before it. Because 2020, as the kids might say.

School building statewide were closed for the remainder of the school year by order of Governor Laura Kelly on March 17, 2020. Plans for distance learning were hastily implemented and, after some fits a…