Dear Parents,
It’s Thanksgiving week, and we have a lot to be grateful for! While this Thanksgiving is sure to look different for all of us, we should take time to celebrate having made it through the first quarter of the school year following all Covid-19 safety protocols and the same core priorities for learning that we as a community have always valued. Our students seem well-settled and happy and have been developing positive relationships with their teachers.
Keeping our schools open and maximizing in-person learning time have been possible due to the entire community’s commitment to working together to keep everyone safe. Our parents, teachers and students have remained flexible with the inconsistency resulting from school being opened or closed or certain groups/pods needing to quarantine. Thankfully, with solid entrance and exit plans in place, we have been well-prepared to successfully transition students and staff between hybrid and fully remote models and will be prepared for whatever conditions unfold during this next school quarter.
While secondary (Hommocks and MHS) learning model changes for Quarter #2 are underway, elementary principals will reach out to families over the course of the next 48 hours to confirm your family’s learning model preference for the quarter, which begins just after the long weekend on Monday, November 30, 2020. Principals are busy making final adjustments and working to honor any changes requested by families.
Please continue to persist and do your part this holiday weekend by adhering to all local and State guidelines regarding travel, social gatherings, social distancing, face masks, quarantining etc. I wish you and your family a safe and healthy holiday.
With Gratitude,
Dr. Robert I. Shaps
Superintendent of Schools
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