Last night Andrew watched to the school board meeting. I made him listen through headphones because I was just too anxious about it. The decision was made, as expected, to begin the year remotely. However, the school board is not committing at this time to an entire semester, so we will just see what happens.
I am very grateful that they only shut down contact sports. I am certain those students and families are disappointed, but in our house we have a band student, and I am very grateful that he is allowed to continue. My mother mentioned she doesn't feel that there should be sports if they can't physically be in school. I explained that normally I would agree with that, however I feel it is important at this point to give kids whatever can be SAFELY given to them. Anything, however little, is better than nothing.
While they did decide to form a committee to look into teacher reductions, it will not be for this school year. Andrew's job is safe, but all of the teachers are colleagues and it will be tough. They also decided not to eliminate educational assistants at this time.
Overall, it went about as well as could be hoped for during such crazy times. There are still tough decisions ahead, but I am very pleased with the decisions the board made.
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