New Hanover County chair Julia Olson-Boseman speaks at a Dec. 9 press conference with the board of education. (Port City Daily photo/Alexandria Sands) NEW…
New Hanover County Schools Board of Education Chair Stefanie Adams surprised families when she said she would no longer support moving into Plan A. (Port City Daily photo/Alexandria Sands)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY – New Hanover County Schools has once again changed its plan for elementary schoolers in the spring semester.
Students will not return in-person to classrooms full-time starting Jan. 19 as planned. Instead, K-5 students will continue in Plan C, all remote learning, for an additional week.
On Jan. 25, elementary schools will resume Plan B, a hybrid model in which students attend school face to face twice a week and learn from home the remainder of the days. In all three scenarios, families are given a 100% remote option.
history with sex crimes against students, the most recent drafts have no mention of sexual assault.
It’s not clear who pulled the questions. However, it is clear the debate over whether or not to include the question of if a student has experienced sexual assault presents a legal liability to the district, hence why it has been hesitant to invite such disclosures through the survey.
Now, the district is going back to the drawing board on the recently debated survey.
Revisiting the survey
About a year ago, the school system was working to create a Title IX survey to send out to middle and high schoolers. However, that effort was largely abandoned when the pandemic hit and took students out of classrooms.
Plan A will begin on Tuesday, Jan. 19, the day after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Middle and high schools will remain in Plan B, as the governor has not allowed those students to return to in-person class full-time.
The board originally voted late last Tuesday to move to Plan A on Jan. 11. Although the board would have the authority to revert the action, it still included a clause in the motion stating the decision was pending an update from Superintendent Charles Foust. Board member Stephanie Kraybill suggested this “pause clause” would “sit better” with families who thought NHCS was rushing into Plan A.