Exactly one year after the coronavirus pandemic rained on Plymouth-Canton Schools successful $275 million bond passage parade, a huge step was made toward spending some of those bond dollars.
In its first in-person meeting in several weeks, the Plymouth Canton Board of Education voted 6-0 to approve bid package EL-1, the highlights of which are a four-classroom addition to Dodson Elementary School and the construction of secure entrances and new main offices to Field, Hulsing and Eriksson elementary schools.
Field, Hulsing and Eriksson affectionately nicknamed the triplets by architects and builders because of their identical layouts will also have space added that will allow their students to enjoy separate gymnasiums and cafeterias, which are currently shared by one room.
As Plymouth-Canton Community Schools administrators prepared for the first school board meeting of 2021 inside their downtown Plymouth offices Tuesday afternoon, a student-orchestrated rally unfolded on the sidewalk in front of the district s two-story brick building on Harvey Street.
Braving bone-chilling conditions under gray, gloomy skies appropriate for a pandemic-era protest the sign-waving throng reiterated their desperate plea that it was time to return to in-person learning 10 months after the COVID-19 pandemic shut the district s yet-to-reopen middle and high school classrooms. I think it s great that the community is getting together to fight for something we want, and we want to get back in the schools for face-to-face learning, Nina Dorigo, a Plymouth High School senior, said. It s important to us that we get to go back to school, at least for the final semester.