Some south Louisiana public school districts have announced plans for fall classes, offering a mix of online and traditional learning when schools open Aug. 5 in Terrebonne Parish and Aug. 6 in Lafourche Parish.
Both parishes’ approaches are based on the state’s phased reopening plan in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Terrebonne, if the governor’s office returns the state to Phase 1 -- with stricter stay-home orders -- all classes will be online. Under Phase 2, in place now, or Phase 3, parents will have the choice to send their children to school campuses or use online classes only.
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“We decided to give parents a complete choice. You’re either all in virtual or go to school,” said Terrebonne Parish public schools Superintendent Phillip Martin. “We’re trying to do something that matches what our parents and kids, the world they live in.”
The Lafourche Parish School District has released a 15-page guide outlining plans. It details three phases of potential operation for the coming school year.
In Lafourche, Phase 1 is entirely online learning. Phase 2 calls for a mix of online and in-class learning, with campuses functioning at half capacity. Phase 3 would allow students to attend class on campus every day with a series of health and safety modifications in place aimed at limiting the virus’s spread.
“We are working with our partners in the Department of Health in order to make sound decisions that allow us to protect all involved,” Lafourche Superintendent Jarod Martin said.
Public schools enroll about 17,200 students in Terrebonne and 14,600 in Lafourche. The Catholic Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux enrolls another 5,000 students across the two parishes and Morgan City.
Catholic students will also return to campuses in August, Houma-Thibodaux Bishop Shelton Fabre and Superintendent of Catholic Schools Suzanne Troxclair said in a video on the diocese’s website.
“We will regularly communicate the latest updates to our plans on our diocesan website as well as on social media,” Fabre says in the video. “Each Catholic school will also continue to communicate with its parents and students as these plans are finalized.”
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School statewide closed March 16 after Gov. John Bel Edwards issued his initial stay-home order. Locally, public schools offered students a mix of online classes as well as instructional packets parents could pick up at schools. Catholic schools converted to online-only instruction.
Both parishes will follow state health rules for students and employees on campuses that include temperature checks, face masks for employees as well as students grades three and up, frequent hand-washing, keeping desks at least six feet apart and limiting bus capacity.
State and local officials have yet to decide whether fall sports, including football, will take place and under what circumstances.
While subject to change, Terrebonne officials have decided not to allow students enrolled in online-only learning to participate in sports, Philip Martin said.
“There’s one reason we are offering virtual, for parents who don’t want their kids mixing with other kids,” he said. “Well how do you do that but say you want them playing football. That seems to be conflicting to us.”
Jarod Martin said it will likely be the same for online-only students in Lafourche, but that decision has not been finalized.
In both parishes, school opening and closing times, as well as bus routes and schedules, will remain the same as last year, officials said. Each bus will have no more than 50 students aboard to allow for social distancing. Bus schedules are expected to be posted to the school districts’ websites in coming days.
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In Lafourche, operations carried out remotely will be similar to the end of last school year, with Google Classroom the main medium of instruction.
Under Phase 2, schools will keep attendance at half capacity in an A-B scheduling model. Half the students, the A group, would attend Mondays and Wednesday. The other half, the B group, would attend Tuesdays and Thursdays. The two groups would alternate Fridays. Days the students stay home, they will be assigned work through Google Classroom.
Both school systems’ plans encourage students who are sick to stay home.
Lafourche encourages parents to screen their children before sending them to school and outlines symptoms be watchful for in its online guide. If a child fails the health screening at the school, the guide says, he or she will be “isolated and provided with the proper adult supervision until the student is able to return home.”
Both superintendents acknowledge that uncertainties remain and that school officials, employees, students and parents will need to adjust along the way.
“There’s going to be a lot of paradoxes with this as we go back to school, there just will be,” Philip Martin said. “And that’s one that I wish I had a good clean make-everybody-happy solution to.”
In a July 1 letter to parents, Jarod Martin said the district is trying to balance the goal of offering daily instruction to all of Lafourche’s students with a commitment to do so safely.
“Our plan allows for the conditions relative to the spread of COVID-19 to determine the type of educational opportunities we can offer our students,” Jarod Martin wrote. “We will continue to modify and adjust our practices as we learn and grow in this process.”
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