Maintaining protected sheets/ranges when making copies in Google Classroom

Question

I've looked everywhere for an answer to this and I beginning to think there isn't one...

I'm sharing a google sheet with protected ranges by "making a copy for each student" when posting the assignment. By doing this, the owner of the spreadsheet gets changed to the student, thus making the protected ranges not apply to them any longer. There has got to be a way to make the ranges stay protected so students can't edit them?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Cory