The Monmouth-Roseville Board of Education has laid out a tentative plan for the remainder of the year in which they will return to five days a week until 2 pm of in-person learning in April. Superintendent Ed Fletcher explains:
“We put together a tentative plan moving forward. On February 22nd, we are going to use a remote learning planning day, which will help us finalize the plan for some changes we have coming. So on March 1st to March 31st, we will no longer have the hybrid or blended learning model. We will allow parents the option to send their children to school five days a week until 12:30 p.m. Parent will also have the option of allowing their child to stay in our remote learning program. Then on March 22nd, we will start our pre-k program back up for in-person option for parents, but also pre-k parents will still have an option for remote if they want to keep their kids in remote as well. On March 26th, we will use our last remote learning planning day because after spring break, which is April 1st through the 5th, from April 6, 2021 to May 21, 2021, we are going to extend the time frame, it will still be five days a week, but go until 2 p.m. On the initial dismissal of 12:30 we will still have our teachers working with kids in the afternoon for their support. When we change to a 2 p.m. dismissal, we will use the afternoon from 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. to provide support for our remote learners.”
When switching to five days a week 2 pm dismissal, students will not be able to socially distance as much as they are now, which could cause more quarantine to happen if a student were to test COVID positive. Fletcher stressed for parents to not send their child to school if they are presenting with COVID symptoms or if anyone in the household is showing symptoms or has tested positive because that child could then be placed in remote learning or removed from extracurricular activities for the remainder of the year if the child is sent knowingly by a parent.
