Syracuse, N.Y. -- Nearly all high school students in the Syracuse City School District will be home for the fall, completing all of their classwork online, according to the district’s draft plan for reopening.
The district’s 10,000 k-8 students will be going to school in-person two days a week and online three days a week.
And every family will have the option of complete virtual learning if they are not comfortable having their children attend school in-person.
District Superintendent Jaime Alicea unveiled the district’s choices at a meeting this evening of the Syracuse City School District Board of Education. The district is the largest in the region, with 20,000 students in k-12. So many people -- 250 -- attended the online meeting that it hit its limit and board members couldn’t get in. They had to listen on speaker from Alicea’s cell phones
Alicea said there were concerns about having enough masks, enough hand sanitizer and enough space on the buses for everyone. But one of the biggest issues is finding enough teachers to teach 10,000 k-8 students when they are split into the small classes that social distancing requires. That, he said, would be nearly impossible.
So half of those 10,000 students will go to school on Monday and Tuesday; the other half will go on Thursday and Friday. Wednesday will be online for everyone and a day to clean the buildings.
All families will be able to opt out of the hybrid model and have their children learn completely online, Alicea said. The district will be reaching out to each family to find out their decisions for each child.
Another factor in deciding to keep high school kids home was knowing that the grade-school students in many homes would have no one else to look after them.
“A lot of our parents are depending on high school kids to watch the kids,” Alicea said.
He said the school will be going through its database to make sure that children in the same families go to school on the same days.
Students with special needs and those in district’s robust English as a New Language program will be taught in-person in the high schools.
High school students will only receive in-person instruction for science labs and career and technical education labs.
The rest will be done online. Alicea said the district will switch to a semester model for high school. Instead of having eight or nine courses every day for the entire year, students will have four courses that they will complete by January. Those offerings will match the state Regents exams that are scheduled to be offered in January (so students aren’t tested at the end of the year on material they haven’t had in six months).
The district plans to continue distributing printed packets to students as it did during the spring. And it will continue its partnership with WCNY for kids in grades k-5.
The district’s complete plan is still be worked on. Some details may change, Alicea said, before it is submitted to the state on Friday. The state has to approve all 700 New York school district’s plans for reopening.
The Liverpool School District also announced its plan today.
Districts have until Friday to turn their reopening plans into the state and share them with the public.
Marnie Eisenstadt is a reporter who writes about people and public affairs in Central New York. Have an idea or question? Contact her anytime: email | twitter | Facebook | 315-470-2246
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