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Friday, August 07, 2020

Schools will begin with distance learning

Public system will follow ‘Responsible Return’ plan with four-stage protocol

The Worcester County Public School system will begin its year with distance learning, or Stage One, of its “Responsible Return” model, Superintendent of Schools Lou Taylor announced at a Thursday afternoon press conference at the board of education offices in Newark.

“We recognize the significant challenges that distance learning poses for many of our students’ academic and social emotional development, which is why we intend to re-evaluate conditions every two weeks,” he said. “As those conditions allow, we hope to move into Stage Two by Monday, Sept. 28, which will welcome back into our buildings small groups of identified students for face-to-face instruction.”

In what appeared to be a show of support for the decision, also present at the conference were board of education members, the county commissioners, representatives of the county health department, the Worcester County Teachers Association and the Worcester County Educational Support Personnel Association.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Homeschooling! Everyone is homeschooling -- might as well do it with a real program designed for home education and with a group that meets in person! Expect an increase in groups like Classical Conversations and co-op learning.

Anonymous said...

So glad this is our last year of the public school joke

Anonymous said...

Great, 11:14 is raising more inbreds.

Anonymous said...

What is going to happen to the school bus contractors? Many of them have ooans on their busses that must be repaid. The school board has two choices, neither of them good. They can continue to pay the contractors, a huge waste of money, or they can not pay them which would be a terrible choice as well.

Anonymous said...

Even the Wicomico PTA/PTC is on to the WCBOE's crap!
https://www.delmarvaptc.org/post/was-wicomico-county-public-schools-justified-in-closing-our-schools?fbclid=IwAR3Bo8j5qg9k3RoTQJktIwDaIlmeSCbQSOMltAFm0SUbRYSp30wlfwwZfJA

WCBOE won't release the findings of the survey; again who works for who?

Make this a lead story!!!

Anonymous said...

This is a terrible arrangement.
Most households have both parents working. Now, one will realistically have to stay home to assure this “education” occurs. Also, if you have more than one child, in different grades, you must have individual terminals. This will fail miserably and those responsible will never, ever take any blame. These self absorbed egomaniacs would rather eat a pile of dog crap than admit they are wrong.