Small groups of Wicomico County students returned to school on Oct. 5 as part of the school system’s ongoing recovery efforts.
As Wicomico County Public Schools wrapped up its first month of virtual learning, Superintendent Donna Hanlin announced last week the school system’s plans for bringing back small groups of students beginning Monday.
“As of Oct. 5 we will have students coming to schools in small numbers for Special Education, English Language Learners, Career & Technical Education, secondary math tutoring and some Advanced Placement science labs,” Hanlin said in a message to families. “After that, working by grade level, we will gradually bring back students who choose to return.”
Beginning Oct. 19, prekindergarten students will return to the classroom in small numbers with health and safety precautions, Hanlin said, followed by kindergarten students a week later. Other grades and programs will follow in the weeks ahead with communication forthcoming for families, and as health conditions in the community allow.
“Please note that before a student may return to a school or use school transportation, a COVID-19 Parent/Guardian Agreement must be signed online,” Hanlin said. “The link will be provided by the student’s school when the student is identified as part of a group or grade that will be returning.”
School sports will not resume today, as previously planned.
Hanlin said the school system’s recovery plan, posted on www.wcboe.org, has been updated, and families are encouraged to review it.
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All moving so quickly, and most/all schools are not prepared to safely reopen according to established guidelines. Most/all classroom's are setup for social distancing, HVAC systems are not fully operational, and most schools have not been cleaned recently and transportation is not ready. Most/all schools do not have any or enough cleaning supplies, minimal PPE gear, etc, etc...Not sure how they are opening the schools while not following protocol's other than grant money influence.
ReplyDeleteQuickly? We’ve been shut down since January
DeleteJust about everything you said is false. The schools have been preparing for months. We've been closed since March 3:11
DeleteNo darling. The shut downs were in March.
DeleteNice to see a teacher chime in!
DeleteIt is a good thing they return for their mental developement, also so that they are back with their fellow students learning, and just living again. Safe guards can be in place but this is good for the country, students and teachers.
ReplyDeleteWell, well. No matter how much money your taxes go to fund good schools you actually question this? I would think all's well - given that they've had well over 8 months now to clean/fix/get ready for this.
ReplyDeleteSorry 1:16 - NO MORE EXCUSES.
Open schools, open churches, open business.
Period.
With cases rising, the schools will be closed by mid November just watch...
ReplyDelete1:16 you are a true serf
ReplyDelete1:16p...stop whining. Where are the mass hospitalizations and deaths among students and faculty from schools and colleges across the country that have been open for over a month? Were you concerned about Walmart’s air system for the last 7 months while you grocery shopped?
ReplyDeleteOn a related note...this process is a jumbled mess. It was 1st communicated that it would be 4 days a week in person...now it’s only going to be 2 like Talbot county (mon/tue or Thursday/ fri). Parents already pulled kids out of daycares an can’t get spots back. Hanlin is not a leader. This plan could’ve been in place months ago, and let here we are...struggling from week to week with no leadership.
1:16 pm How exactly do you know any of these assertions?
ReplyDeleteThere is virtually ZERO danger to reopening schools.
ReplyDeleteThe death rate from Covid is lost in the noise level of data.
200k dead. That not enough for you?
DeleteWell now they have announced it will only be couple days of week. After sending out notification they would be going back full time
ReplyDeleteSomeone needs to make up their mind BOE
Welcome to the party. The private schools like St. Francis, Salisbury Christian, the Salisbury school, and Worcester preparatory have been in person for five weeks. What took you so long?
ReplyDeleteAnd zero out break. What? Noway
Delete10:40 - I would venture a guess that the students attending private school are far better cared for by parents who take precautions and take care of themselves. The majority of the 200k+ deaths were the result of pre-existing conditions that covid made worse.... exactly the types of issues seen by a large segment of students and their families on the public school side of things.
DeleteDEFUND THE BOE!!!! Its a marxist infested cesspool of waste
ReplyDeleteLook in the mirror 1:16 & 2:20
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Destroy the family, you destroy the country.
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
CHINA and democratic collusion started this mess of lies deception and WAR.
Be real 7:07 - there is no way the BOE will be defunded. Instead, if there is a mass exodus moving away / selecting home school/ private school is the only way any funding g will be cut. Did you miss the article a few weeks ago about continued building projects? The BOE juggernaut is full steam ahead with no impact on their bottom line. Just ask Brian Ashby.
DeleteAt least it’s safer than Somerset. 15-20 students in rooms that can safely have 10. Sending letters to parents saying buses would be safe with 12 students per bus. That lasted one whole day before they doubled it cramming 25 kids on a bus without telling parents
ReplyDeleteWhen are they going to allow sports to begin
ReplyDeleteWhen the Hell is Wicomico County going to allow kids to play sports??
ReplyDeleteIt's time to vote these clowns out of office, especially the 4 Republicans. They are the majority so they are the problem. Vote them out!
Below you will find the BOE members and their email addresses. Feel free to give them Hell until they are voted out of office! Kick them to the curb!
Republicans
1) N. Eugene "Gene" Malone Jr. - gmalone@wcboe.org
2) John Palmer - jpalmer@wcboe.org
3) Ann B. Suthowski - asuthowsk@wcboe.org
4) Tonya Laird Lewis - tlewis@wcboe.org
Democrats
1) Donald L. Fitzgerald -dfitzger@wcboe.org
2) Michael G. Murray - mmurray@wcboe.org
3) Allen C. Brown, Sr. - abrown@wcboe.org
Cambridge Dorchester High School CTE has had seniors coming 4 days a week since Sept 15th. They only go to CTE then home. Why can't they go to the high school for math and English etc? It makes zero since how they are doing this.
ReplyDeletevote republican and get school choice, so you can stop sending your kids to hanlin and briggs petre dish of demonicrat social engineering!
ReplyDeleteA pandemic doesn't care about your dumbass desires for entertainment or your crying about your kids being at home. I'd rather have a dumb child than a dead child, so mine will remain at home doing homeschooling. The rest of you window lickers can send your super spreaders during snot, sneezing and coughing season. What's really scary is that you people actually vote on emotion, I'll vote on facts and science.
ReplyDeleteNobody is dying you brain dead fool
Delete@9:03 people die everyday, every year! In 2018 2,839,205 people in the US alone died! Was that enough for you? Numbers can be twisted and it has already been proven that they were! Is that a reason to keep children from learning? NO! Death is honestly a part of life! There is no stopping it!
ReplyDelete9:12
ReplyDeleteYou aren't voting on facts or science.
Covid cases are not covid sick people.
Every year people get sick from cold/flu and many die.
Every person who's died for any reason this year is tested for covid and if covid is found they are marked as died of covid.
Covid is only dangerous to someone who's got lots of health issues and is going to die anyway.
Go get tested you fool, you probably already have it or had it.
People like you are lemmings.
9:12 is probably a teacher or someone feeding out of the government trough.
ReplyDeleteMost of the world like me has to get up and go to work, so get off of your collective asses and go to work or quit!
I am sick and tried of my hard earned money going to a failed system that has direct links to the Democratic party! The reconstituted communist party!
Go to hell!
Let go on with our lives and quit hold our children hostage to a failed system that only care about themselves and how much they can take and force on the rest of us.
You work for us, we don't work for you!
Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete200k dead. That not enough for you?
October 7, 2020 at 9:03 PM
You do realize that every death has been listed as a "Covid Death" regardless? No, of course you don't! You are a F'n IDIOT!
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeletevote republican and get school choice, so you can stop sending your kids to hanlin and briggs petre dish of demonicrat social engineering!
October 8, 2020 at 7:05 AM
Vote Republican right down the ticket, always!
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteA pandemic doesn't care about your dumbass desires for entertainment or your crying about your kids being at home. I'd rather have a dumb child than a dead child, so mine will remain at home doing homeschooling. The rest of you window lickers can send your super spreaders during snot, sneezing and coughing season. What's really scary is that you people actually vote on emotion, I'll vote on facts and science.
October 8, 2020 at 9:12 AM
"I'd rather have a dumb child..."
Well, your dumb child has a dumb parent because this so-called "pandemic" is manmade in order to control dumb people like you.
So tell me how does it feel to be a DUMBA$$ like YOU?? Stupid idiot!
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteA pandemic doesn't care about your dumbass desires for entertainment or your crying about your kids being at home. I'd rather have a dumb child than a dead child, so mine will remain at home doing homeschooling. The rest of you window lickers can send your super spreaders during snot, sneezing and coughing season. What's really scary is that you people actually vote on emotion, I'll vote on facts and science.
October 8, 2020 at 9:12 AM
Calm down Snowflake. You won't be thrown in the gas chambers and burnt to death like 6 Million Jew were but you are on the road to being owned like Hitler.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete9:12
You aren't voting on facts or science.
Covid cases are not covid sick people.
Every year people get sick from cold/flu and many die.
Every person who's died for any reason this year is tested for covid and if covid is found they are marked as died of covid.
Covid is only dangerous to someone who's got lots of health issues and is going to die anyway.
Go get tested you fool, you probably already have it or had it.
People like you are lemmings.
October 8, 2020 at 5:11 PM
"Every person who's died for any reason this year is tested for covid and if covid is found they are marked as died of covid."
It shows you how DUMB you are because EVERY death has been counted as a COVID-19 death no matter what the cause of death was. It's a fact Jack!
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeletevote republican and get school choice, so you can stop sending your kids to hanlin and briggs petre dish of demonicrat social engineering!
October 8, 2020 at 7:05 AM
I agree, Hanlin and Briggs are two of the dumbest and most arrogant idiots in the Wicomico County Public School System.
And Dave Hanlin, Donna's husband, is buddies with Len Foxwell and trying to be a part the Democrat deep state. They are buddies with John Cannon as well.
Far TOOOOO Early & it Won't Last long !!!
ReplyDeleteOnly to send them all back home soon !! Fact
ReplyDelete