I am writing again today as part of my weekly reports on the plans for the fall of 2020.  Before I share my update, I do want to remind and clarify regarding a couple items.  

The Logistics Task Force continues to meet weekly considering all of the ways in which we, as a school, need to adjust to meet the health and safety needs of our students as well as our faculty and staff.  Conversations continue to include updated Covid-19 cases, both in our own city and county as well as throughout neighboring counties and states.  We are also keeping up with South Carolina's "accelerateSC" communications that address many of these recommendations as well as other local schools and systems that are wrestling with the questions of face-to-face instruction.  While these data points are important, they don't necessarily speak to the specific hopes and desires of our own WCCS community.  Having spent many weeks working through the WCCS surveys (both parents and faculty/staff) from early June, we are formulating plans.  However, that survey is several weeks old, and much has changed since then.   Therefore, we are crafting a second survey (for both groups again) that will go out the week of July 6th.  These surveys will look to determine just how our own comfort levels have changed throughout the month of June and into July, which we believe will give us most of the data we need as we finalize our plans for August.   Be on the lookout for those surveys and please share your thoughts and opinions.  We really do want to hear from you!
 
I should also note that the Academics Task Force continues to meet as well and we have even had some intentional crossover and combining of efforts of these two groups to maximize our listening, learning, and planning.  It should be noted that this team is focused in the different academic needs of different age/grade levels of students, which means that we are looking for four sets of academic plans (Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, and High).  This group is also contributing questions to the surveys so that we are sure to be considering the thoughts of our own families as we set plans in place.
 
As a reminder, the WCCS offices are closed next week (June 29 - July 3).  I will not be sending out a weekly update next week.  As noted above, we plan to send our next surveys early in the week of July 6, with the specific goal of finalizing and publicizing our plans for August by mid-July.  We know that you want to know our plans.  We want to know as well.  We just want to be sure that the plans are reasonable, manageable, and desirable for all.  Please pray alongside us to that end!