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A crew on Monday works on the new football field at Highclimber Stadium at
Shelton High School.
All students in the Shelton School District willstart the school year
learning online due to the surging
coronavirus, and the beginning of the football season has been moved from
September to March.
Journal photo by Gordon Weeks '
Schools: District has contingencies
continued from page A-1
“We believe this is the best way to start school,”
he said.
If the coronavirus is “subdued,” the district can
move to Plan B, a hybrid model mixing online and
face-to-face teaching, and then Plan C, with all stu-
dents back in the classrooms, Apostle said. All three
plans are flexible, and a committee will review it .ev-
ery two weeks, he said.
As'it did in the spring, the district will provide
Chromebooks for students to use at home. The district
will also continue to provide “grab-and-go” breakfasts
and lunches, something it has been doing since the
abrupt closing of the schools in mid-March.
“Bottom line, this is the best possible thing we
can do at this time,” said school board member Sally
Brownfield. F
School board member Lynn Eaton said she has
had trouble sleeping worrying about. the safety of the
district’s students. With students staying home, “We
know it has real impacts on families,” she said.
More than 200 people watched Tuesday’s school
board meeting via Zoom. The district’s plans for the
2020-2021 school year will be presented at an open
community forum streamed live via YouTube at
6 pm. tonight.
Everyone is welcome to make comments and ask
questions during the forum by sending an email to
communityforum@sheltonschools.org or by calling
1-253-215-8782 and entering meeting ID #949 3747
9648 during the scheduled meeting time. If you call
in, mute your microphone until you are admitted into
the meeting and prompted to speak. '
The reopening plans can be viewed on the district’s
website.
At Tuesday’s board meeting, the superintendent
outlined the reasons the district will begin the year
100% online. The health and safety of students, staff
and families is the “paramount” reason, he said.
Apostle said other reasons for the decision include
the district having only a month to prepare for the
Sept. reopening, uncertainties about state and levy
‘ funding, and the difficult logistics of safely screening
staff and students, and providing food service and
transportation.
Hanging over all the decisions is “the uncertainty
of the virus — it’s dynamic,” Apostle said. “It knows
no boundaries.”
It would be “irresponsible” to start the school year
in any otherway and endanger the lives of students
and staff, the superintendent said.
Apostle stressed that the plan is flexible. ,
“Nothing is black and white here,” he said. “There
will be challenges.” '
Apostle stressed that the district will work with
families and students on a caseebyscase basis to ad~
dress any challenges or special circumstances. The
plan states, “We will continue to offer support through
school district programs including, but not limited to,
English learners, Native American education pro-
grams, McKinney—Vento, our family support services
and all other state and federal programs.”
As for social-emotibnal support, “District—level
resources will be available for students through our
website. Distant/virtual social and emotional support
for students will be provided by staff and Counselors.”
The plan states that the decision to move to Stage
B or C will be based on guidance data from the 10-
cal health jurisdictions and the approval of the school
board.
Under the Stage B blended model of online and
iii-person learning, students would attend school in
classrooms Mondays and Tuesdays, or Thursdays and
Fridays; on the other days, they would be learning on-
line. Wednesdays would be devoted to online learning
for all students with staff having office hours, plan-
ning and online class meetings.
Students from the same family would be placed
on the same schedule, said Kelly Neely, the district’s
director of curriculum, instruction and state and fed—
eral programs.
Coronavirus: Safety remain a concern
continued from page A-1
the role of the public health de-
partment and the role of the case
in-co'ntact investigation.”
Mason County Public Health
has been working with school
districts to develop plans on re-
opening.
“There are a million and one
details we’re looking to help the
schools get started in the fall, ev—
erything from the position of the
desks to how you get the students
in the door,” said David Windom,
the county’s community services
director.
The Shelton School Board on
Tuesday evening voted unani-
mously to start the school year
with all students learning on-
line, with plans in place to go
to a hybrid model and then all
students back in the classroom
when safety allows. The North
Mason School District also an-
nounced Tuesday it also will
start the school year with all stu-
dents learning from home.
Windom told board members
he that spoke Monday with of-
ficials at the Washington Cor-
rections Center in Shelton and
is impressed by the coronavirus
screening system for inmates.
“They have a very tight, tight
program That really relieved
a lot of my concerns,” he said.
When new inmates arrive,
they are tested for the corona-
virus and placed in a separate
wing or housing unit, Windom
said. A week later, they are test-
ed again, he said.
After 10 days, if they haven’t ;
tested positive for COVID-19,
they join the general prison
population, Windom said. If they
test positive, they are placed in
a separate housing unit, he said.
Stein is leaving his position
at the end of the year and the
search has begun for his replace-
ment.
“I want to ensure we come up
with a contingency plan before
I leave this position,” he said.