We expect parents to have mixed feelings regarding summer school opportunities for their children.
The Jamestown Public Schools District will offer its LEAP program, which mixes summer activities with literacy activities while Clymer and Panama school officials recently discussed their own enhanced summer programs.
Schools have battled the “summer slide” for years, but those efforts are taking on a new form this year after COVID-19 has limited in-person instruction for many school districts for more than a year. The Panama, Clymer and Jamestown programs are open to any child who wants to participate. For Clymer and Panama, that is a departure from the mandatory summer school for struggling students. The smaller districts are planning new summer programs that aim to bolster a child’s education in a way that is also fun and more like a summer camp than classroom instruction. And, for schools that have been largely remote, in-person summer learning opportunities may help make
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Jamestown police and Alstar EMS are pictured Thursday morning outside Washington Middle School. Officers were alerted to a despondent student, and the school briefly went into a shelter-in-place.
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Washington Middle School in Jamestown briefly went into a shelter-in-place Thursday morning due to a despondent student.
Officers with the Jamestown Police Department and Alstar EMS responded to the 159 Buffalo St. school around 9 a.m. Several officers, along with the department’s comfort dog, could be seen on school grounds.
Jamestown police said the student was secured and taken from the school for an evaluation. “No other students were in danger during this incident,” said Capt. Robert Samuelson.