Students in year 11 and 12 will return to school on Monday while teachers for other year levels will have a week of pupil-free days after the holidays were extended.
Premier Daniel Andrews said a decision had not yet been made on what would happen with schooling for the more junior years.
"There will be options for more distance, because we have less than a full school. We have only a small number in the overall number of students attending each school." "We don't want two VCEs, one from metro Melbourne were there were longer shutdowns than regional and vice versa," he said.Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton acknowledged there were risks with schools as demonstrated with the Al-Taqwa College outbreak which was now the state's largest.
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