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On Saturday, Feb. 13, around 200 educators and child care workers received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a drive-thru event at the county’s bus barn in Frisco.
It marked the first time that workers, other than those in health care and first responders, were vaccinated in the county. Of the 200, 132 doses were available for Summit School District employees, including teachers, coaches, custodians, bus drivers and more.
“When we started this wild ride of the pandemic, we were talking about different entrances, hand sanitizer, masks and I just couldn’t wait until the part where we were talking about vaccines,” said Drew Adkins, the district’s chief operating officer, at a school board meeting on Thursday, Feb. 11. “So, hip hip hooray, we are there.”
Photo by Liz Copan / Studio Copan
With the news that Summit County will remain in level red for the time being, the Summit School District has pushed back the date for when students will return to hybrid learning.
Since Nov. 30, all students in the district have been participating in online learning as a response to an overwhelming number of quarantines in the district. Originally, the plan was to have students return to hybrid learning Jan. 4 after their holiday break. Now, students won’t be returning to hybrid learning until Jan. 11 at the earliest.
According to a news release, elementary and secondary students will remain in online learning through Jan. 8. If case numbers after the holidays aren’t overwhelming, those students will return Jan. 11 to hybrid learning, which has elementary students in person four days a week and secondary students in person two days a week.
Photo by Liz Copan / Studio Copan
With the news that Summit County will remain in level red for the time being, the Summit School District has pushed back the date for when students will return to hybrid learning.
Since Nov. 30, all students in the district have been participating in online learning as a response to an overwhelming number of quarantines in the district. Originally, the plan was to have students return to hybrid learning Jan. 4 after their holiday break. Now, students won’t be returning to hybrid learning until Jan. 11 at the earliest.
According to a news release, elementary and secondary students will remain in online learning through Jan. 8. If case numbers after the holidays aren’t overwhelming, those students will return Jan. 11 to hybrid learning, which has elementary students in person four days a week and secondary students in person two days a week.
Gabriel Loomis, a first-grader at Dillon Valley Elementary, participates in online learning at his home. Shae Loomis, Gabriel s mother, said she s noticed a difference in how the district approached online learning this time compared to their experience when schools closed in March.
Photo from Shae Loomis
When the Summit School District started the year in a hybrid learning model, district officials made it clear that having school during a pandemic would require flexibility.
On Nov. 20, that flexibility was put to the test, when the district announced all schools would be participating in online learning from Nov. 30 through Dec. 18. Students won’t return to hybrid learning in the schools until after their holiday break ends on Jan. 4.