Southern Wisconsin districts prepare to host school-wide clinics to conveniently vaccinate students
May 11, 2021 3:00 PM Christina Lorey
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While schools aren’t
requiring all students receive the COVID vaccine just yet, they
“Having it at a school shows we think it’s safe,” said Breunig. “This is just one step closer to getting back to normal.”
Vaccinated students no longer need to quarantine when exposed to someone with COVID, which keeps them in the classroom and eligible to participate in extra-curricular activities.
Hosting clinics
at schools also provides an added convenience for parents.
“We’re able to get them in and out and back to class so parents don’t have to find time in their day,” explained Brian Borowski, Waunakee High School Principal.
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“It’s incredibly challenging,” Borowski said.
Although teachers are in the classroom at Waunakee High school, their students aren’t. The school is operating almost completely online, with students only coming in for activities that can’t be done remotely.
“It’s not easy to recreate everything that schools have done for the past 100 years, right?” Borowski said. “It’s all been refined.”
Borowski said administration found that students do best when they know what their day looks like, which is why they’re trying to keep to a traditional schedule. For Waunakee, that’s a block schedule.
“We have rotating blocks, four classes one day and then four classes the next,” Borowski said.
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