MATTAWAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Mattawan Consolidated Schools is the latest district to be sued over the mandate of masks in the classroom. A group of fiv.
Masks will be optional at Portage Public Schools for the 2021-2022 school year
Masks will be optional at Portage Public Schools for the 2021-2022 school year
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Portage Public Schools announced that masks would be optional for the 2021-2022 school year.
Numerous parents had asked the district what its mask policy would be, saying they need the information before deciding on whether to enroll their children. On the afternoon of Monday, July 12, 2021, Portage Public Schools announced that masks would be optional. We were getting a lot of questions from our families about what our mask-wearing policies were going to be this coming year, said Portage Superintendent Mark Bielang. And so we wanted to let them know as soon as possible that masks would be optional for all of our students and staff. We certainly recommend that staff members or students who are unvaccinated that they feel more comfortable wearing masks that they wear those.
Art, music and PE are wild subjects to teach online. But creative Michigan teachers are making it work
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
Teaching young students how to hold a trumpet or showing them how to glue an art project together takes patience and skill any time.
Doing so in the virtual learning space caused by COVID-19, however, takes even more, and that has taken teachers outside their comfort zones and pushed them to get creative this school year.
Many kids across Michigan still are attending school from home at least some days each week and classes, such as band, choir, art and physical education, require that extra dose of creativity to keep students engaged and learning.