WESTBROOK – Students will start the new school year the week of September 8, taking in-person categories two days a week and running remotely 3 days a week.
Half of the fellows will attend school two consecutive days and the other part will attend school another two days of the week. All schools will remotely paint on Fridays the 4-2 approved reopening plan through the school committee on Tuesday. Members Beth Schultz and Jessica Mosinski abstain.
Students’ start times and precise dates are still being determined, Superintendent Peter Lancia told the American Journal on Wednesday, and more major points will be published after the newspaper’s deadline. The first full week of classes will be the week of September 14.
Distance learning will be similar to that implemented last spring when state schools closed to stop the spread of coronavirus, but more “responsibility” will be reserved for students, Lancia said.
Students will have hours of recording and other live meetings with their peers and teachers. Students in schools and the best schools will have some flexibility in schedule, he said.
In addition to the approved hybrid style, the committee also approved full and fully remote return styles so westbrook schools can make a replacement more easily if needed, Lancia said. The school board and management will re-evaluate hybrid style by the end of September.
Ventilation is underway in schools, superintendent Peter Lancia said.
“Say they come back badly, I’ll come back and say they open remotely, ” he said.
Suzanne Salisbury, a member of the school’s committee, a letter from an anonymous teacher.
“How will you feel when a staff member or student has COVID, perhaps dying?” the professor wrote. “Are you going to characterize that to the threat you need, offer your condolences, and move on? Or will you recognize that it can be prevented?”
Administrators say that even if they have in-person teaching considerations, it will be safe. Schools will operate in accordance with state rules in the event of a pandemic and the social distance will be respectable as the buildings will operate in part of their capacity.
“Or it is too damaging to open schools and close them; Or that’s safe and open,” Father Kurt Smith said in an interview with the American Journal.
The state has allowed all Maine to reopen for face-to-face learning.
“The state has become green, however, the state expects us to comply with all regulations, which prohibits us from being completely on users due to space requirements,” Lancia said. “Bref, with existing expectations, is for us right now.”
Smith also said there is uncertainty about the student grouping.
“As parents, we still don’t know what days our children will be in school and what days possibly not. It doesn’t make it any less difficult to plan paintings or childcare,” he said.
Lancia said administrators sought to maintain the combination of brothers and neighborhoods in the organization to facilitate family paintings.
Students with special desires who depend on lifelong learning will have the opportunity to attend school Monday through Thursday, he said.
Resident Scott Linscott said he appreciates the management’s paintings about reopening, but is still involved in returning to schools. Linscott’s wife is an instructor at Westbrook Regional Professional Center and is vulnerable to the virus due to a previous liver transplant.
“It turns out that Westbrook is taking steps to protect academics and instructors. However, I’ve heard that the plan is for parents to control temperatures in the house on a daily basis,” he said. “Any instructor will tell you that parents send their children with health problems to school.”
Lancia, the staff on duty will erase the schools very well each and every night, and as a component of the hybrid model, 3 days without schoolchildren in the school constructions, from Friday to Sunday, allows to quarantine a construction in case of escape. Lately, the CDC has been recommending a 3-day quarantine for outbreak sites.
So far, Westbrook schools have not reported that any students have had the virus, while Cumberland County has approximately 2,143 cases, according to the Maine CDC.