The timeline for Swampscott students return
Leigh Blander / Correspondent
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The countdown is on to more in-person learning in Swampscott. At the Swampscott School Committee meeting on March 10, Swampscott Superintendent Pamela Angelakis presented an enhanced timeline for students’ return.
“I’m really, really excited,” Angelakis said.
Here’s a quick look at the schedule:
March 22: Swampscott High School returns to a five-day hybrid schedule (with days beginning at 8:10 a.m., instead of the recent 9 a.m.). The SHS Wednesday half-day becomes a full day. All special education students at elementary schools return to their original classrooms.
Swampscott School Committee mulls social-distance change
Leigh Blander / Correspondent
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The School Committee is discussing possibly changing the distancing rule in Swampscott schools from six feet to three feet – to bring more students back into classrooms.
“This is such a year of loss,” said School Committee Chair Amy O’Connor at a Feb. 10 public meeting. “The completely dulled experience that everyone’s having; we did not imagine this was going to be a year in the making. Everyone’s exasperated and parents of the younger kids are really burnt out.”
School Committee member Ted Delano added, “I had a conversation with a parent today and they were describing their daughter’s academic progress as dying on the vine and that to me is a lot.”