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Fairfield students are asking for one half-day per week as they return to full-time, in-person learning. (Shutterstock)
FAIRFIELD, CT Hundreds of students have signed a petition requesting that Fairfield Public Schools change Wednesdays to a half-day now that the school district has returned to full-time, in-person learning.
Fairfield schools fully reopened Monday and Tuesday after about a year of remote and hybrid education amid the coronavirus pandemic. With the learning model change, high school and middle school students expressed anxiety and requested that time be built into the academic week that would allow them to decompress.
The Board of Education discussed the petition Tuesday, and board member Jeff Peterson provided Fairfield Patch with an edited version of a letter from three high school students, which was sent March 2 to the board and Superintendent Mike Cummings. As of Tuesday night, about 800 students had signed the petition, according to Peterson.
UpdatedFri, Dec 11, 2020 at 1:58 pm ET
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To the Fairfield Patch:
We want to thank the Fairfield Town Planning and Zoning Commission for their decision at the special session on Dec. 8 concerning the proposed project at 131 Beach Road. The thought, effort and careful consideration by the commission of all of the evidence that went into modifying and reducing the proposed development was not only impressive, but courageous given the history of legal challenges to 8-30g developments in Connecticut.
Again, we as a neighborhood and a community welcome affordable housing but, as the commission recognized, the proposed building was simply too tall and massive for such a small parcel, and, according to the commission, would have had an adverse effect on the local historic district.