“We cannot have a day of delay in that process, so that’s why we thought it was prudent to have students have their last day on May 27,” Superintendent Belinda Selfors said. “The schedule is very tight.”
“I worry about it all the time,” RPS Superintendent Kent Pekel said. “Right now, we are not seeing ‘the great resignation’ from Rochester Public Schools on the whole, but I hear from staff at all levels that things have never been this hard.”
The district made the change Monday, July 10, 2022, amid a surge in COVID cases around the area. Contrary to Stewartville's decision, other entities are tightening their mask mandates.