By: Pepper Fisher
PORT ANGELES – The Port Angeles School Board last night approved a revised school reopening plan proposed by administrators, so it looks like the plan is set to go for the first day of school on September 3.
The District will start by opening school classrooms to students in Kindergarten through second grade, plus special needs students, and they will be admitted on an A/B schedule similar to the original proposal with students rotating in on alternating days.
Provided there is little or no known spread of the virus in school and the number of cases in our county doesn’t go over 75 per 100,000 population in a two-week period (as of Friday we are at 58 per 100K), then the next phase of reopening would be for kids in the third through sixth grades.
The next phase would be students in seventh through ninth grade, and then all students would return, again on an A/B schedule.
School spokesperson Jennifer Sperline says the timetable on moving from one phase to the next is uncertain because of the number of variables.