Huntley School District 158 students in pre-K through sixth grade will have the option for in-person traditional learning five days a week, while students in seventh grade, eighth grade and high school will operate under a hybrid style, blending in-person and remote learning, when the 2020-21 school year begins.
According to District 158’s Return to School plan released late Thursday, students in any grade can opt out of in-person learning and choose a remote learning option.
On Friday, families were required to get an email with a link to a distance learning registration form, and responses were to be sent until July 21. Those who do not settle or respond will get a classic schedule and an in-person location.
Seventh, eighth and best schools who return with a hybrid taste will have alternate “A” and “B” days. Approximately one part will participate in days “A” and the other part on days “B”.
Students who participate in distance learning will have a structured schedule and the opportunity to interact with their live teachers, with classes taught live via video streaming. Notes and attendance will stick to classic protocol.
“The district is making a substantial investment to outfit all classrooms with equipment and software to stream live instruction with two-way, audio-visual interaction,” according to the plan. “Students attending remotely will have a virtual experience closely replicating the in-person experience, including participating in live discussion.”
Students and visitors must certify for themselves that they have no symptoms of COVID-19 when attending school. This can be completed through a parent before the student arrives at school. Students without a full evaluation should self-certification on the site or be screened for symptoms at school. The variety and certification procedure has not yet been fully published throughout the district.
Staff must complete 4 modules related to COVID-19 in addition to the mandatory annual modules.
During the first two weeks of classes, students and staff will get a protective education “to make sure everyone is aware and able to comply with existing protective and fitness measures.” Classes will be strengthened the year.
As ordered by the Illinois State Board of Education, all students must wear a mask at all times in school buildings, even when social distance is maintained.
You won’t want to wear an outdoor face mask, meals or music, and physical education classes, which will be taken outdoors whenever possible.
The district will provide students and staff with a reusable mask and also a disposable mask fountain. You will get regular breaks in the morning and afternoon to remove new air and mask.
Families may file documents from an authorized physical care provider to “describe cases that require a student not to weaken a mask.” The use of face protectors will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Classrooms will be configured to maximize social distance, visual reminders and signs will be placed around the building, and the use of non-unusual spaces will be staggered whenever imaginable to minimize the number of Americans in an area.
In preschool and elementary school classrooms, students will remain in the same classroom group throughout the day, while students in middle school and high school classrooms will remain in the same group throughout the day when feasible. In middle school classrooms, teachers will rotate into classrooms rather than students rotating into different classrooms.
According to the plan, opportunities for student learning in music, art, physical education and explore will continue.
Buses can accommodate up to 50 people. Masks will be required on buses and sit tables and optimized routes will be used to maximize social distance.
Lunch menus will be limited to prepackaged or carryaway taste to reduce the amount of time students queue and reduce person-to-person contact. Buffet facilities will not be available. If necessary, students can have lunch in spaces other than the cafeteria at their social distance. The spaces would likely come with outdoor spaces, gyms, non-unusual areas, unoccupied study rooms and elementary study rooms.
Street food will be picked up at Heineman and Marlowe universities for families participating in distance learning.
Buildings will be disinfected with an electrostatic disinfection device every night, while bathrooms, hallways, cafes and non-unusual high-pressure spaces will be cleaned during the day. Buses will be disinfected the day between morning and afternoon routes, and students and staff will use separate entrances for morning arrival and afternoon departure.
Sneezing and screens will be added in some spaces, non-unusual spaces such as the cafeteria will have seats and tables distributed to maximize social distance, and quarantine rooms will be installed in each school’s fitness office.
According to the plan, there will be “a new build-up of air in buildings through an optimized cooling rate of the [heating, ventilation and air conditioning] system,” and the windows will open when imaginable. In addition, the interior doors will be left open wherever imaginable to increase air circulation.
The district will set up hand sanitizer stations in each classroom and in the areas visited. Lockers and lockers may not be available and school materials may not be shared between students and staff.
Water sources will be turned off, but non-contact water bottle fillers will be available. Use of the will be reduced to the maximum, with interruptions as expected.
Students or with symptoms of COVID-19 will be referred to the school nurse for evaluation and placed in a quarantine room. For all displayed or suspected cases, the McHenry County Health Department will be consulted.
Possible answers come with the closure of the school by transitority, the closure by transience or quarantine of a classroom, or the quarantine by transitority of the Americans that we decide through touch search. The District will adhere to the recommendations of MCDH, the Illinois Department of Public Health, and the Centers for Closure Disease Control and Prevention.