FALL RIVER Sarah Reis says she misses being able to meet face to face with all of her students.
“We normally would be able to get really close to the kids, but now they’re not there, and that’s sad,” said Reis, who has been a Fall River Police Department school resource officer, or SRO, since November 2019.
Reis and the eight other school resource officers, like everyone else, have had to adjust to the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic during the past 11 months.
For SROs it’s meant making occasional outreach visits to households whenever there’s suspicion that something might be amiss to the detriment of a student, who is either in a fully remote or hybrid learning model.
FALL RIVER Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School will present its preliminary plans for either a new school building or major renovations during a public meeting later this month, as the school hopes to move forward to the next step of completing the project.
“It is important for the community to know that there is a huge need,” said Superintendent Elvio Ferreira. “There are a lot of students who want to get into Diman Regional who simply can’t because of our limitations on enrollment because of space and square footage.”
The district is nearing the end of its “feasibility phase” for a major project at Diman with the Massachusetts School Building Agency, a quasi-governmental agency that partners with school districts to help plan and fund major school construction projects. In order to work with the MSBA, the district must explore and present all its options for updating the building, including making major renovations, adding a new wing or constructing a