Some Yekaterinburg schoolchildren will be moved to remote learning, and not because of the cold.

      In Yekaterinburg, some schoolchildren will be moved to remote learning on Friday, January 16.

      "Due to teachers' involvement in the regional practice OGE for ninth-graders, instruction will be conducted using distance-learning technologies," the EAN news outlet quotes what was told to parents.

      This concerns at least two schools in the Oktyabrsky district.

      The Yekaterinburg city administration clarified that school leadership independently decides to transfer children to remote learning according to their own circumstances. There is no requirement for a mandatory transfer.

      Recall that today, January 14, in Yekaterinburg primary school pupils were allowed not to attend school and to stay home due to severe frosts.

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Some Yekaterinburg schoolchildren will be moved to remote learning, and not because of the cold.

In Yekaterinburg, some students will be moved to remote learning on Friday, January 16. "Due to teachers being occupied with the regional practice OGE for ninth-graders, instruction will be conducted using remote learning technologies," the outlet EAN reports, quoting the message sent to parents.