The COVID-19 pandemic has presented our community with many complex challenges, including how we will safely educate our students. The priority of safely and effectively educating our students must be balanced with the safety of our students and staff and also the financial impact of the pandemic on jobs and our families.
Providing in-person instructional services to our students will require all students, faculty, and staff to practice social distancing, wear a face-covering or mask, conduct daily temperature checks, and assist with contact tracing. Additionally, we should all expect that returning to campus will require a shared commitment to daily hygiene practices including frequent hand-washing and symptom-checking.
Trying to balance the health of students, families, and staff along with the need to return to school for the academic, social, and emotional development of our children is challenging.
We recognize that each family must make decisions based on what is best for their own family.
While we cannot eliminate risks altogether, we believe that by following the state and federal guidance listed above we can together significantly reduce the risk of potentially spreading COVID-19 on our campus. Doing so, however, will require a shared commitment by each of us to take care of ourselves, our families, and everyone in our school.
Below summarizes the guidelines that we will be following as we plan for re-entry.
