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As schools opened, principals faced lots of ‘what ifs’
Richmond Hill Primary School Principal Nancy Highsmith said her staff faced “a lot of ‘what if ’s’” last fall as they geared up for the 2020-2021 school year, one in which students would be headed back to school in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We ‘what if ’d’ ourselves until we were exhausted,” said Highsmith, one of four principals to give presentations to members of the Bryan County Board of Education at their March 25 meeting. “What if the kids get sick? What if adults get sick? What if the kids won’t wear a mask? What if the adults won’t wear a mask? Will the parents actually drop kids off in a building they’ve never been in before? Will kids actually get in the car at a building they’ve never been in? All we had was a lot of ‘what ifs’ we didn’t have an answer for.”