Four other schools in the school district started two hours later because of the outage as well.
Credit: WBNS 10TV Author: WBNS-10TV Staff Updated: 9:42 AM EDT April 21, 2021
Two schools in the Olentangy Local School District closed Wednesday after being on a two-hour delay.
According to school leaders, Liberty Middle School and Wyandot Run Elementary School closed because of a power outage.
Four other schools in the school district started two hours later because of the outage as well.
The affected schools were:
Liberty Tree Elementary School
Due to a power outage, the following schools will operate on a two-hour delay today, April 21:
Updated: 11:17 AM EST March 8, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio Nine schools in the Olentangy Local School District are closed Monday due to a shortage of available substitutes.
The district said it hosted a clinic with the Delaware Public Health District on Saturday for educators to receive a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The district said it scheduled the clinic for Saturday instead of Sunday to allow staff more time to recover and requested additional substitutes for Monday.
However, there was still a substitute shortage Monday due to the number of staff absences.
Here is the list of the following schools that will be closed March 8:
Updated: 11:17 AM EST March 8, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio Nine schools in the Olentangy Local School District are closed Monday due to a shortage of available substitutes.
The district said it hosted a clinic with the Delaware Public Health District on Saturday for educators to receive a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The district said it scheduled the clinic for Saturday instead of Sunday to allow staff more time to recover and requested additional substitutes for Monday.
However, there was still a substitute shortage Monday due to the number of staff absences.
Here is the list of the following schools that will be closed March 8:
Olentangy Schools parents, students share thoughts on returning to class full time
“We recognize that in-person learning has not been associated with community spread. But the reason we waited until staff was vaccinated was because staff transmission was of greatest concern,” Raiff told board members during their Feb. 25 meeting.
Berlin High School junior Cameron Pack said she’s glad to be returning to full in-person classes, despite some concerns over how that’s going to look and feel.
“I’m a little nervous to see how it’s going to work in the classroom,” Pack said. “Doubling the number of students makes me nervous. A couple of my classes already have 20 people in hybrid, so how are they going to allow for us to keep a distance? On the other hand, some of my classes are very small.