The superintendent of a school district in Oakland County said a student was killed Thursday after turning left in front of an oncoming bus.

It is important to know that the state is using two measurements for community spread. “A Level A risk would be the lowest, lowest level of risk,” said Dr. Paul Salah, superintendent of the Huron Valley School District. The district currently has 17 total cases and 58 total quarantines for the year. Currently, the Utica School District has a total of eight or 42 classrooms and four athletic teams quarantined. “I would ask our community to do everything it can,” said Tim McAvory of Utica Community Schools.

The Huron Valley Schools district is shifting to remote learning for at least a week after Oakland County’s coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak risk level was increased last week. A level E risk determination means that there are 150 or greater cases per million with a 20 or greater percent positivity rate. There are school districts in the state and country that are operating in counties with a level E risk determination. Huron Valley Schools will be moved to full remote learning for at least the week of November 2nd. The state’s new risk level appears to be largely due to an increased infection rate and rapid increase of daily new COVID-19 cases.

OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. Students in Michigan have gone back to school and many are adjusting to online classes. One of the things they will soon see is benchmark assessment testing. A Metro Detroit superintendent is angry about the requirement and is calling it unethical. Huron Valley School Superintendent Dr. Paul Salah is not happy about it and calls it, and other testing, a waste of time. Salah feels the state assessments and the federal mandate to do assessments reinstated this fall, after getting dropped last spring, should play no part in a pandemic-era education.