Planning for the school year 2020-2021
As the district is continuing to drill down into the specifics of the approved Model of Instruction for the 2020-2021 start of the school year, I would like to encourage you to do a few things in the upcoming weeks.
- Have a COVID/Illness plan in place just like you do for weather related cancellations. What will we do if our child(ren) are sent home from school?
- Who is going to pick them up and care for them?
- If my child is voluntarily learning via the Distance Learning option, or if the school goes to a Distance Learning model, what are our plans?
- What is the approved Model of Instruction the school is planning to open with? Go to the district website and under Quicklinks – open the 2020-2021 Reopening Plan.
Voluntary Distance Learning: If your child is planning to attend school via the Distance Learning model, you need to notify the school by 3:00 PM on Monday, August 24th. We need this information for planning purposes.
If you choose this option, you need to stay with this option for one quarter (until November 12th) or if the district changes the Model of Instruction based on the MDH guidelines.
Tomorrow’s Communication will be from the Nurse-Health office.
Lastly, I recently saw this and felt it more or less wrapped up the feelings many of us have as we move towards the beginning of the school year.
Mr. Besel
Back to school this year is ideal for NO ONE.
Not for teachers.
Not for parents.
Hybrid is not ideal.
Virtual is not ideal.
Face-to-face in the midst of a pandemic is not ideal.
For every kid who is anxious to get back to the classroom there is another who has anxiety about returning.
For every parent who wonders,
“How am I going to manage this?”
There is a teacher wondering,
“How am I going to manage this?”
Often, a person wears both titles.
For every kindergarten parent who is sad that this is how their child will begin their education, there is a parent of a senior who is bummed that this is how their child will end theirs.
For every person angry about their child having to wear a mask, there is a person who is petrified their immune compromised family member will get ill.
Life has thrown us a huge curve ball.
A plot twist if you will.
It will not be easy.
We will be challenged.
We will get frustrated.
I hope we rise to the occasion.
I hope we help one another.
We will all need help.
I hope we treat each other with grace.
We will all need grace.
I hope we realize that at the end of the day, our kids need us to be the light.
Set the tone.
See the good.
Take a really unfortunate situation and do our best to make it okay.
For them.
For us.
- Stephanie Krause
