(Atlantic) At Wednesday’s School Board Meeting, the Atlantic School Board approved Superintendent Steve Barber’s recommended modifications to the district’s return-to-learn plan for the 2021-2022 school year.
The proposal adds a few other pieces to the mitigation strategy, but ultimately it returns the students and staff to a pre-COVID setting.
The proposal includes no remote learning, visitors will be allowed back into buildings, no more travel restrictions, school trips will again be allowed, and no screening.
The plan eliminates the isolation room. Classrooms will return to a normal setting, no social distancing, no masks, and the water fountains will be turned back on.
Mitigation strategies for positive cases will remain the same. However, it’s the student and parents’ decision to quarantine in close contact situations.
The proposal continues the cleaning mitigation strategies in buildings and buses, similar to those implemented during the pandemic.
Students participating in extra-curricular activities will once against be required to ride the bus to each event.
All buildings will return to having lunch in the regularly scheduled location, and salad bars will be reinstated.
