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I am going to go ahead and get this started... which districts are going to start with everyone online versus waiting until the 17th? Also, what are the plans for driver/monitor pay during the 2 week delay?
Ernie, Kyrene is delaying the school year by 2 weeks. Our Online Digital Academy will start on July 30th, but our in-school and hybrid models will be delayed until the 17th as of right now. This means our last day of school will now tentatively be June 8th. Our drivers and monitors will be off contract until August 12th, when we hope to start our in-service and welcome back.
Same. We are only given 2 days (6 hours each) usually. So we are going to split that down to 3 4-hour days and split our group into 3. That will keep our staff around 40 per group in a classroom. While 1 group is in class, the other 2 groups will have 2 days to work on their buses, drive routes and get help from trainers if they feel they need some extra help since they will have been off a bus since March.
In-service in class will focus a lot on sanitization protocols, what-if scenarios and I'm sure a lot of questions/answers.
I plan to release another survey for our meeting on Friday for our group to answer what their plans are as we get closer to school resuming.
We announced Tuesday night that Online would start on our normal start date.. Aug 5th. and when we are allowed to in building classes would kick in! Transportation will be "on-Hold"...
Yes, I agree that will probably be Labor day before we are back in class at the schools!
We have parents willing to do both at school and online. District is still reviewing the requirements after the second executive order for the possibility of a distance learning model. Honestly, I can see the Governor pushing that date back farther....
I agree! I wouldn't be surprised if it was after Labor Day. We are planning to have a zoom meeting with our drivers and monitors next week to get out ahead of some of anxiety.
Some districts have already announced not returning Brick and Mortar till August !!
That is the hundred dollar question for us right now too. We are leaning to delay their start date but it has not been written in stone yet.
Has any District decided what to do with drivers and bus Aides while schools are online only?
We announced Tuesday night that Online would start on our normal start date.. Aug 5th. and when we are allowed to in building classes would kick in! Transportation will be "on-Hold"...
Yes, I agree that will probably be Labor day before we are back in class at the schools!
We have parents willing to do both at school and online. District is still reviewing the requirements after the second executive order for the possibility of a distance learning model. Honestly, I can see the Governor pushing that date back farther....