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KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 08:16 PM Jul 2020

JCPS board will vote for students to start year at home, saying in-person classes too risky

JCPS board will vote for students to start year at home, saying in-person classes too risky
Mandy McLaren
Louisville Courier Journal
July 15, 2020

Link: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/education/back-to-school/2020/07/15/in-person-classes-too-risky-jcps-board-members-say/5438635002/

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A majority of Louisville school board members say Kentucky's largest school district should forgo in-person classes and begin the new school year with remote instruction.

Six of the seven members of the Jefferson County Board of Education told The Courier Journal they will vote Tuesday for nontraditional instruction, or NTI, to start the school year, saying it is the only way to keep students and staff safe amid surging coronavirus cases.

"None of us want to be in that situation where we have to send letters to families because we've lost a staff member or we've lost a student or it spread from a student to a grandmother or a mom or a dad," said Joe Marshall, representing District 4 in southwest Jefferson County.

"There's too many variables right now. And what we can control is not allowing more traffic into buildings and not allowing this to spread."

The two teachers I know are very happy about this decision.

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JCPS board will vote for students to start year at home, saying in-person classes too risky (Original Post) KY_EnviroGuy Jul 2020 OP
For all the money the taxpayers have spent... Maxheader Jul 2020 #1

Maxheader

(4,366 posts)
1. For all the money the taxpayers have spent...
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 07:37 AM
Jul 2020

A good home schooling program could have been setup...complete with the best network of

hardware, for each student..dedicated system for education only..mom and dad controlled.

No bullshit from the state boe either...credits awarded..grade card given out, along with

diplomas...
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