“At this point, we do not know if it is feasible,” Mashpee School Superintendent Patricia DeBoer said.
While K-3 students in Mashpee already attend school in-person 100% of the time, students in grades 4-12 attend school in a hybrid model that alternates between in-person and remote instruction.
There are many factors that have to be considered before returning students to an in-person schedule five days a week, including whether to stagger their return and how to arrange the spacing of desks, transportation, personnel needs and lunch and recess schedules, DeBoer said.
There’s also concern that spread of the virus and the need for contact tracing will increase if students are spaced closer than 6 feet apart, DeBoer said in an email.
Students create music without instruments after COVID forces classes online
BARNSTABLE, Massachusetts (WBZ) Students and teachers alike are learning as they go- and navigating a routine of in-person classes one day, and virtual classes the next. Dan Felix is a music teacher at Barnstable United Elementary School. He said, “basically it’s been different in a way that we’ve had to be more adaptable and creative.”
For music teachers like Felix, things can get a little tricky, especially when there’s no singing or instruments allowed in class. The restrictions are for health reasons, with Principal Mike Wojkowski explaining, “we don’t really have the ability to sanitize them and have them get used by the next class.”