Secondary schools and colleges which are unable to set up mass Covid-19 testing of students for the first week of January should not be forced to, according to advice from a coalition of education unions.
Headteachers, governors and teachers have been told they will receive the “full support” of their union or professional association if they decide they cannot carry out coronavirus tests at the start of term.
It comes after the Government announced secondary school and college pupils’ return to class in England will be staggered in the first week of January to help schools roll out mass testing of students.
Thursday, December 17th 2020, 4:18 pm
By: Ryan Welton
OKLAHOMA CITY -
For nearly nine months, school districts across the state have been challenged by the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many districts were forced to innovate to allow for distance learning.
For some small school districts, the innovation was just a natural step in a progression they started years ago.
Students in the Maple Public School District, a pre-K through 8th grade district roughly 15 minutes from El Reno in Canadian County, are currently in distance-learning.
Unlike other districts’ distance learning growing pains, Maple Public School District’s computer science curriculum was able to thrive in 2020, even in a rural district where Internet access isn t guaranteed. This was with the help of some pre-pandemic alterations to the curriculum.