Vista middle schools, shuttered since December, will reopen for part-time, in-person instruction under new state rules.
The Vista Unified School District board last week voted on a schedule that would allow students in the Vista “Classic” education model to attend school one day per week in-person starting March 1. They will receive live instruction via Zoom three days per week, and spend one day of “asynchronous” learning on their own.
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, all students will learn online through Zoom classes with their teachers, the board voted. Students will be split into two groups to reduce class sizes to about 16 to 17 students per class, to allow for social distancing of 4 to 6 feet between desks, and reduce the number of students in contact with each other over the course of the school day.
On Tuesdays, group A will attend class in person, and on Thursdays, group B will be on campus, and will attend their normal class schedule of seven to eight periods per day. Students in the alternate group will study independently on the day their counterparts are in class in person.
The board voted 3-2 in favor of the schedule, with board members Rosemary Smithfield and Debbie Morton opposing it. They argued that the district should return students to full-time, in-person learning, and should request a waiver from the state to allow that.
“We’re just prolonging keeping our kids from school,” Morton said. “We are cheating our kids. Doing this is taking a step backward.”
Board member Julie Kelly said, however, that new, more infectious variants of the virus require a more cautious approach to reopening.
“I don’t think we’re shirking our responsibility,” she said. “I don’t minimize the learning loss and disruption and upheaval, particularly for our secondary students.”
The district previously brought about 10,000 students back to school in person full time last fall. However, it closed its secondary campuses before the holidays after facing staffing shortages related to mandatory quarantines of students and staff potentially exposed to COVID-19.
It planned to reopen secondary campuses in January, but new, stricter state rules on school reopening led the district to delay that. Under the new rules, the distance between student desks is mandatory instead of recommended, forcing the district to reconfigure hundreds of classrooms, and rearrange furniture to comply.
The state also required schools to keep students in “stable groups” to limit mixing that might allow transmission of the virus. Vista Unified adopted the A and B groups for middle school students to meet that condition. The school board will consider reopening plans for its high schools at a subsequent board meeting.
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