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BUCKFIELD The board of directors of Regional School Unit 10 will make changes to class schedules at their Feb. 22 meeting in response to complaints from parents about remote learning.
Superintendent Deb Alden told directors at their meeting Monday night that parents whose children are in school only two days a week have “a lot of concerns” about remote learning the other three days.
“If it’s a hybrid model, it’s the off days and concerns for how much work the student has or how much contact they have remotely,” Alden said.
“Everybody has been working hard on (remote education) and I think the biggest frustration is we don’t reap, for as hard as we work, every one of us, be it teachers, administrators,” she said.
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RUMFORD Rumford Elementary School is closed for two weeks because several cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the past two weeks, Principal Jill Bartash advised in a letter Thursday.
“The (Center for Disease Control) believes that these cases are due to community spread, not to contact at school,” she wrote.
The building will be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.
Students will use “snow day packets for learning” Friday, Bartash said, and participate in online classes thereafter until the school reopens Feb. 5.
Earlier this month, Regional School Unit 10 closed three of its seven schools for the same reason. Mountain Valley High School in Rumford and Hartford-Sumner Elementary School in Sumner reopened Tuesday. Mountain Valley Middle School in Mexico is scheduled reopen Monday, Superintendent Deb Alden said Thursday.
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RUMFORD Two Regional School Unit 10 schools and a special education program have closed for in-person learning because of COVID-19, Superintendent Deb Alden told directors Monday.
“The cases are not coming from our schools,” Alden said Tuesday. “The problem is we have so many people that have to quarantine.”
The closures were due to staff being quarantined because of close contacts with people who tested positive for the virus.
Alden said she thinks the staff and everyone involved in the district are “taking the precautions” of the pandemics seriously since those who have quarantined “don’t come down with COVID.