Blan’s Putman Elementary going remote-only for rest of week beginning tomorrow News Journal BLANCHESTER — Putman Elementary School will be switching from in-person learning to remote learning beginning Tuesday, Jan. 26 through Friday, Jan. 29; the tentative plan is to return to in-person learning on Monday, Feb. 1, Superintendent Dean Lynch announced in a one-call at noon Monday. “The reason we are switching is the number of employee absences due to the virus which created a lack of personnel to run the day to day operations of the school,” Lynch said. All other buildings in the district will remain open to in-person learning.