The Putnam County Schools will ask parents to make a final decision on in-person or virtual learning by September 18.
School Board members voted Thursday to the change in the system’s back to school plan. Director of Schools Corby King said the system needs to better control its teaching resources by settling on a strategy.
“When students make that move from in-person to remote, it requires several schedule changes,” King said. “It doesn’t just affect that one student or that one teacher’s classroom. It affects our
numbers and the student-class ratios. It impacts many students’ schedules. So lots of changes have to take place.”
In the original reopening plan, parents could make a choice each nine weeks. King said the system has found that the switching back and forth to be more difficult to deal with than expected. Further, King said the system needs to do a better job of helping its teachers.
The date gives the system two weeks before fall break to allow for final schedule adjustments in trying to pocket virtual learners in distinct class periods.
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