It is no secret to any Billings locals that Faculty District 2 superintendent Greg Upham has determined to proceed his masks mandate for college students. In case you missed it, this is a duplicate of his letter to all dad and mom, and I give my two cents on the finish. Maintain scrolling!
Expensive Dad and mom and Guardians:
In mild of the swift tempo the Omicron variant is transferring in our group, inflicting a fast improve of COVID instances impacting our faculties, we are going to proceed with our present masking necessities. It was with nice anticipation that we had been poised to welcome non-obligatory masking, however the trajectory of the present instances requires us to stay vigilant as we work via this wave.
As I’ve beforehand defined, I monitor weekly SD2 COVID instances together with the Yellowstone County Faculties Weekly Report, and meet with our native well being officers. No single metric determines masking or no masking; relatively it’s an evaluation of a number of information factors and searching for the enter of our group medical officers to offer steering as selections are made. To your reference, I’m together with our Masking Analysis Course of beneath, which was publicly shared on September 2, 2021; our present SD2 COVID weekly case counts (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zT-Akvx1w_mqcB5bCLtb7JM3IufGSkyi/view?usp=sharing); and the latest Yellowstone County Faculties Weekly Report (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IOhz_IcVuX4JYXIS0iVav09ga6l32tSA/view?usp=sharing).
Masking Analysis Course of: The next standards will probably be reviewed on a weekly foundation for evaluating the standing of the SD2 masking mandate.
a. Native well being officers COVID-19 data updates.
b. The whole variety of Yellowstone County (faculty age) energetic instances.
c. The whole variety of Yellowstone County (all age) energetic instances.
d. Present well being care capability.
e. Yellowstone County positivity charges.
f. Yellowstone County each day case counts per 100K.
g. Complete variety of SD2 instances per particular person faculty.I ask that all of us refocus our efforts in optimizing our capacity to proceed offering important in-person instruction and extracurricular actions. As you might remember, different faculties throughout Montana are experiencing COVID associated workers shortages to the purpose of putting faculties into distant studying settings. We’re doing the whole lot we are able to to keep away from being positioned in a distant studying setting. You may assist us by practising socially distancing, washing palms incessantly, and masking when acceptable.
If we do have to position a college or faculties into a short lived distant tutorial setting due to pupil and/or workers sickness, the constructing principal will talk the procedures for trying out know-how and every other vital instructional sources. Your pupil’s instructor can even be speaking attendance and studying expectations with you or your pupil by way of their regular communication strategies. As well as, if a college is positioned right into a distant tutorial setting, a each day Seize and Go meal (which features a breakfast and lunch) will probably be offered by Sodexo at every faculty. Extra detailed data will probably be offered ought to this case come up.
Thanks in your consideration and help on this necessary matter.
Most Respectfully,
Superintendent Upham
We Have to Begin Questioning, People
The one query that must be requested of the Superintendent is the Division of Well being and Human Providers mentioned mask-wearing doesn’t cut back covid instances. In reality, the DPHHS mentioned a comparability of colleges carrying masks and people who do not present that there’s a larger variety of instances in faculties that require masks, So why implement a coverage that may compound the issue?
See if you will get a solution… See ya Monday at 5 a.m.
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