District 205 school board members were given an update on how the first two weeks of in-person schooling has gone at their meeting last night.
Superintendent Dr. John Asplund told board members that since school has resumed, the district has had to exclude a great many students from school because of close contact tracing related to the Coronavirus.
“But we’re over 400 people we’ve had to exclude since we’ve been back in school the last two weeks,” Asplund told the board Monday night. “So, we’re trying to push against some of the reasons why we have to do it from [the Illinois Department of Public Health] but we’re not getting a lot of flexibility.”
Additionally, 11 staff members have had to be excluded because of COVID protocol.
With the fourth term right around the corner, Dr. Asplund told the board that a notice was sent to parents last week to try and determine who would be in-person learning and who would be remote learning for the fourth term.
He said that the district is requiring parents, who are keeping their students learning remotely, to tell the district of that plan. Otherwise, the district was going to assume that students would be in-person to start the fourth term.
“We want to make it as easy to be in-person as humanly possible. And so the only way you’d need to notify the school for fourth term is if you plan to be remote. And as of this morning, the number was 174 students who were going to be remote for fourth term.”
Asplund said he’d like to see more students back in-person as the weather gets warmer with more options for outdoor learning.
