BRUNSWICK, Ohio ---- With “the safety of students and staff as our top priority,” Brunswick City Schools Superintendent Michael Mayell announced last week that the district’s official plan for re-opening this fall will allow for two options; in-class instruction or online instruction.
The virtual town hall meeting, held July 30, was at once a detailed review of much of the district’s previously release draft plan for the 2020-2021 school year and an opportunity for members of the community to weigh in on those plans.
Mayell, along with Assistant Superintendent Jason Niedermeyer; Director of Student Services Taya Neuman; Director of Personnel Heidi Armentraut; and Patrick Geschke, director of educational programs and innovation, covered a broad range of topics including health and safety; educational considerations and specifics of face-to-face and online returns to school; technology; special education; and operations.
The two options
For those students returning to face-to-face classes, the district will employ strict safety protocols, with both parents and guardians as well as school staff responsible for vigilantly assessing for symptoms, including daily temperature checks; hand washing and sanitizing of shared surfaces; social distancing; and a mandatory face-covering policy for both building staff and students.
Mayell noted that the district would be in close communication with the Medina County Health Department in determining much of the protocol should a student test positive for COVID-19, or if the district would need to switch to an entirely online model.
With school commencing Sept. 14, parents choosing to enroll a student for online classes have until Aug. 14 to do so, with two possible formats - Brunswick curriculum taught by Brunswick teachers, or a “third-party curriculum,” with Brunswick teachers acting as “student advocates,” the plan states. In either case, these students will fully be a part of the district and eligible for all school-related activities.
The online course will include a “structured schedule” and “rigorous” curriculum, the plan states, with a traditional grading scale – as opposed to the pass-fail format this past spring.
Questions from the community
Niedermeyer said that the district had received “thousands” of questions in the run-up to the release of the plan. He and his colleagues address several of them at the virtual town hall meeting.
Among these were whether or not class sizes would be limited due to social distancing, a question Niedermeyer said he could not specifically answer, although all class spaces were being evaluated; if face shields could be used instead of masks – officially, the district will be following Centers For Disease Control recommendations for masks, Niedermeyer said; and if attendance requirements would be changed, given the higher likelihood that students could miss school due to having Coronavirus symptoms. Niedermeyer said the state of Ohio has not, at this time, made any changes to attendance requirements.
Mayell also addressed the question of why the district was not considering a hybrid online-in person approach.
“After analyzing the feedback from parents, students and teachers, the Brunswick City Schools has decided not to offer a hybrid option,” he said. “We believe a hybrid environment would cause hardship for our families who need to access daycare for their children; the district would have a very difficult time providing transportation in a hybrid environment; and, in a hybrid environment, our teachers are required to provide face-to-face instruction as well as asynchronous instruction. Should a student need help at home with an assignment, the teacher would be unable to intervene because they are teaching a face-to-face class.”
Mayell noted that the 2020-2021 school year plan is the result of 10 weeks of work by more than 50 parents, teachers and administrators. He added, however, that the plans are ultimately subject to change, should the spread of COVID-19 merit it.
“The purpose of this plan is to provide parents, students, and staff with detailed information about our reopening plans,” he said.
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