We are excited that MDE has approved the plan we presented to bring students back to school!
We are optimistic as we make these changes—not because the challenges are gone, but because we have some experience and have a stronger sense of what we are up against, how to react, and how not to react to various situations. We have to assume that the absence of students and staff through new cases and contact tracing will be our most important challenge and most likely the biggest cause of frustration. Covid is not gone. The rules of contact tracing are still the same. Our vigilance to social distancing, reminding students, podding students, and implementing the highest levels of care is as critical in the next month as ever. It is not a matter of if it happens; rather, it is a matter of how many are forced to leave with each positive case. This is the conversation we need to have with students. It is their team, or their concert, or their friends. The end goal is having school and every event with everyone there. With that said, here is the return-to-school plan for Pierz Schools:
Dates to note: Monday, January 11 - Move to Hybrid grades 5-12 Monday, January 18 - In-person, grades 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 Friday, January 22-25 - per current calendar year, these are non student days (PS-12) Tuesday, January 26 - Preschool returns. PS-4 in person, grades 5-12 no school Monday, February 1 - In-person, grades 7, 8, 9 (all students PS-12 are in person!) To further explain our rationale: We received a waiver on our appeal for starting hybrid Jan. 11. That waiver allowed us to by-pass the state proclamation that schools can only start bringing students back three grades at a time beginning January 18. However, the "three grades at a time" rule made it impossible for us to just be all in-person at the start of the 2nd semester. We were then faced with the issue of having to wait two weeks from whenever we start bringing students back.
—George Weber, Superintendent, Pierz Schools Comments are closed.
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