Hello! If you saw the remind text, you know we are beginning to prepare for the schools to reopen. Our staff will be making phone calls today and tomorrow to get an idea of how many students plan to return to school. (We need to turn in this in on Friday) We need this information in order to put transportation requests in, as well as to make sure we have the space we need to accommodate the students. Additionally, it gives us an idea of how many students intend to remain virtual, so can prepare for that as well.

When we return, school hours will be 8:50-1:30. At this time, I do not know if we will be at Howe or at Hype, once we know that, we will be able to answer more of the questions that are starting to come in. We hope to have more details for you later this week.

As a reminder, in order to return, the positivity rate must be below 5% for two consecutive weeks. The numbers come in on Tuesdays, and I do not believe we are below 5% as of today, so the earliest we would return would be the week of February 15th, if the numbers are below 5% on Feb 2, and again on Feb 9.

Upon returning, students will be required to wear a mask that covers both their nose and mouth for the whole day. I don’t anticipate being able to take “mask breaks” at this time, due to the weather.

We will not be going to job or community sites at this time.