UPDATE: Includes statistics from the district superintendent.
For the first time since March 2020, students at Morristown High School and Frelinghuysen Middle School will be returning to five-days-a-week in-class instruction.
Students from grades 9 and 12 will return on May 10, 2021. Grades 10 and 11 return on May 17. Middle School students also will be returning during this period, a district spokesperson said.
A few weeks ago, the Morris School District announced it would wean itself of hybrid schedules when Morris County’s COVID-19 risk level was downgraded from “high” to “moderate” for three weeks.
“Our hope with this plan is that we can create a more cohesive sense of community and provide our students with meaningful steps toward normalcy as we end the year on a positive note,” MHS Principal Mark Manning said in a message to parents and students this week.
The four-hour abbreviated school day–a sore spot for some parents–won’t change. All-virtual instruction will continue for students who have chosen that option.
“Students who chose to attend school in-person during the 4th marking period will be expected to come to school each day they are assigned to be in school. If they access learning online, they will be marked absent,” according to Manning.
For those resuming five-day-per week classes, mask wearing at all times will be required, along with frequent hand-washing. Learning spaces will be sanitized at the start of each class, and hallway- and stairway foot traffic will continue to flow in one direction.
COVID cases are at their lowest level since September, and the statewide transmission rate on Tuesday was .27, said District Superintendent Mackey Pendergrast. Anything below 1.0 indicates new infections are waning.
More than 500 of the district’s 5,700 students have been vaccinated so far, and approximately 90 percent of teachers are inoculated, Pendergrast said.
(COVID vaccines are not yet available to anyone under 16, although the Pfizer vaccine is poised for emergency approval for persons as young as 12.)
About 65 percent of Morristown High students and 80 percent of middle schoolers have opted for in-school instruction, Pendergrast said.
Of course, all of this comes with the standard coronavirus caveat:
“If conditions change suddenly we will press pause,” Pendergrast said.
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