{"id":8673,"date":"2020-07-24T07:08:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=8673"},"modified":"2020-07-24T07:08:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:08:54","slug":"my-notes-from-park-city-school-board-meeting-on-reopening-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/24\/my-notes-from-park-city-school-board-meeting-on-reopening-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"My notes from Park City School Board meeting on reopening schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have kids in Park City schools, you&#8217;ve probably been following the school reopening plans. School will go on &#8212; on August 20th. It sounds like schools will continue throughout the year over hell and high water. You have two options, in-person and online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In-person will be a corona-ized version of what we are used to. Online will be taught by PCSD teachers. Buses will run on their normal routes. Before I get into thoughts on reopening, here is my bullet-point list of items I sent to a friend as meetings were going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>They are going to wash their hands a lot. Studies show that is important.<\/li><li>They will send home a magnet that tells people how they should check their kids for symptoms every day.<\/li><li>Every kid gets two CC, double-layer, microbial gators. A double layer has shown more effective.<\/li><li>Masks must be worn on buses<\/li><li>Teachers will get masks and can also wear a face shield<\/li><li>There will be a video with a calming voice, like when you get on a Delta Flight and they tell you what to do when the plane crashes, that will reassure children that everything is going to be OK.<\/li><li>Kids should be practicing wearing masks from August 1.<\/li><li>Hygiene posters will be in every class telling students (that are old enough to read) how to wash their hands.<\/li><li>PCSD decided on in-person because of social equity. This way can help equity.<\/li><li>In-person will be done by a PC school teacher<\/li><li>Remote will be done by a PC School Teacher &#8220;down the hall.&#8221; If a child needs to stop in-person because they get suck or their parents get sick they can go remote. [Note: this was somewhat contradicted in the PC Ed Foundation meeting because they said students would need to stay in-person or remote for a quarter. So not sure about this.]<\/li><li>Remote attendance will require remote students to be online at certain times.<\/li><li>June survey said five elementary kids per school would be remote.<\/li><li>Not doing a split schedule because we don&#8217;t have 38-40 kids per class like some places in Utah.<\/li><li>Teacher subs will be assigned to one school. They will not float.<\/li><li>Dual immersion students should attend in person (recommended).<\/li><li>Increasing fresh air to 50% in all schools&#8230; so dress accordingly. It may be COLD in the morning in schools.<\/li><li>Lunch will be grab-and-go. Assigned seats will happen at lunch. High school kids may get to pick the table they are assigned to.<\/li><li>A parent developed a new computer program called Health Attend. PCSD paying $1 a year for it. Parents will be able to look at how many people are sick in classes and make decisions on whether they should send their kids to school.<\/li><li>The school is responsible for contact tracing in the event of a coronavirus case.<\/li><li>The district is planning for intermittent attendance.<\/li><li>Encouraging kids not to use lockers.<\/li><li>PCSD is not using a purchased curriculum.<\/li><li>Teachers will come back two days early. Teachers can take a seminar on how to teach remotely. Teachers must rely on their Principals. Teachers are empowered to innovate.<\/li><li>K-2 will use See-Saw. 3rd grade through 12th will be Canvas. Teachers in 3rd to 5th grade need to learn Canvas.<\/li><li>DLI 1st-5th should be done in-person but can be done remotely but not as well.<\/li><li>Every school has an ionizer for air. They purchased those in March. Installed Merv 15 filters. Anything larger than 3 microns is filtered. Should help with mold, pollen, etc. as well as Corona.<\/li><li>There will be mask breaks for elementary. Playgrounds won&#8217;t require masks.<\/li><li>Schools will remain in-person full-time unless Summit County moves back to Orange and then schools will be a hybrid in-person\/remote model. Red would mean fully remote.<\/li><li>You have until Agust 7th to register your child for remote learning. Otherwise, they will be in-person by default.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So, those were my notes from the school board meeting and parts of the PC ED Foundation meeting. I don&#8217;t guarantee that the district said everything correctly or I captured it correctly but it should be generally correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have kids in Park City schools, you&#8217;ve probably been following the school reopening plans. 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