Posted by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Dec 15, 2020
No one said wearing a mask had to be boring. Teacher Paul Fitzgibbon and academic principal Bernie Gurule incorporate mask-wearing into their Halloween costumes. “During a pandemic, you just have to keep moving forward,” superintendent Janelle Vanasse told the state Board of Education. (MEHS photo)
Mt. Edgecumbe High School successfully contained an early outbreak of coronavirus, and is holding classes in person, despite the fact that Sitka and most of the state remains at “high.”
The Alaska Board of Education heard a favorable report about the state-owned boarding school’s efforts to mitigate the virus, during its quarterly meeting