(Audubon) The Audubon School Board approved the District Return to Learn Plan at their meeting Monday evening
Superintendent Eric Trager said they have three different scenarios in place. The first scenario, and the one they intend to start with, is with all students face-to-face and allowing families the choice to keep their students home and take part in remote learning.
“That option will be a four-day week; so we’ll go Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. We’ll use our Wednesdays to do a deep clean of the building and then our teachers will be working with those students that are doing the remote learning on those days as well as any students that are getting behind, or at risk of getting behind, we’ll reserve that day to pull kids in as we need them in small groups and things like that,” explained Trager.
The second scenario is if they need to go to 50 percent capacity. “We’ll do an A Day/B Day; so some students will be A students and some will be B students. The A students will attend Monday/Thursday, the B students will attend Tuesday/Friday and with the Governor’s new proclamation we’ll likely have to alternate Wednesdays with those students. We’ll only use that if we’re required to do that in order to be at half capacity for social distancing.”
Trager said the third scenario is full remote learning and they will only do that in conjunction with the local public health or state public health or if there is a state proclamation that they need to do that.
There will be several mitigation protocols in place. “We do plan to social distance as much as possible. We do plan to strongly encourage the wearing the masks and that will include asking our staff to model good practice with the wearing of masks. We plan, obviously, additional cleaning protocols; students will help wipe high touch areas with disinfectant on their way out of every class and they will be asked to do the hand sanitation on the way into the next class,” said Trager. “We’re going to work with our custodial team to make sure our HVAC system is operating on an occupied system 24 hours a day. Currently, we can set our building to unoccupied to save some energy, but that cuts down on the amount of outside ventilation air that comes into the building, so we’ll be running on occupied 24/7, as well as increasing the frequency of our filter changes and things like that.”
Audubon students return to school on August 17th.
