Will all school communities offer access to the COVID-19 vaccine?
On Monday the FDA expanded who can get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Before it was available to people age sixteen and older. Now it is available to everyone age twelve and older.
and last updated 2021-05-12 10:55:33-04
WALLED LAKE, Mich. (WXYZ) â On Monday the FDA expanded who can get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Before it was available to people age sixteen and older. Now it is available to everyone age twelve and older.
On Tuesday some schools are taking action in response.
âWalmart reached out to me today and we do know one local hospital reached out as well,â said Kenneth Gutman, Superintendent of the Walled Lake Consolidated School District.
Dan Waitz vividly remembers the time a few years ago when he gave his oldest son Grant and his other children each a quarter at a restaurant so they could get a piece of candy out of a gumball machine. A few minutes later, I looked over at the kids and everybody was chewing gum except Grant, Waitz recounted. When I asked Grant why he didn t get a gumball, he said he put the quarter in the container on the counter they were using to raise money for kids with leukemia. That s the kind of person Grant was: the most caring, compassionate, kind kid you d ever want to meet.
The following instructional delivery methods were approved starting March 1:
Elementary students return to a full five-day-per-week in-person model with school days starting at 9 a.m. and ending at 3:55 p.m.;
Middle school students return to a full four-days-per-week in-person model with school days starting at 8 a.m. and ending at 2:45 p.m., with Wednesdays remaining a full day of remote live instruction.
High school students return to in-person instruction in a half-day (7:10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.) hybrid model with blue and green cohorts; afternoons will be mandatory remote live instruction each day. Half of students will attend school Mondays and Tuesdays and half will attend school on Thursdays and Fridays. Wednesdays will be a full day of remote live instruction throughout March.