Boys & Girls Clubs of Chaffee County will open the doors to the public and host a ribbon cutting and grand opening that’s nearly a year overdue Saturday.
Last week, two cases of COVID-19 were recorded impacting the Buena Vista school district, according to superintendent Lisa Yates’s last Monday morning update of the school year.
In her weekly update April 26, district superintendent Lisa Yates reported one case in Avery-Parsons Elementary School.
âThere was limited contact with others in the schools resulting in a single class having just a couple days of quarantine,â Yates said.
At the school boardâs meeting Monday night, Yates told board directors that âthe individual has not been around others in the school for quite some time. We were able to do some testing (Monday) and there were no positives in those tests, so those students will be able to come back Wednesday.â
âIt was a hard Saturday when you get that call,â Yates said. âBut everyone was back at it, and here we have this room filled with testing first thing this morning. I think it was a reminder to all of us that as weâre planning these extracurricular activities and trying to make these things happen for kids that we still need to be very mindful that thereâs COVID happening.â
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How a Small Colorado County Prioritized In-Person Learning in the Face of COVID-19, While Protecting its Tourism-based Economy
Over the past year, Chaffee County, Colorado has managed to do something few outlying counties across this state or this country– have done: support in-person learning for its two school districts. As February fades into March, the roughly 2,246 children ages K -12 of this county, with only a few blips, have been educated in-person for the entire school year. How this county has accomplished this may be a lesson for all counties, no matter their size.
“We prioritized in-person learning; we made it our top priority,” said Chaffee County Director of Public Health Andrea Carlstrom. “After last spring, when everything shut down, we realized that getting our kids back in regular classrooms was critical. So as a county, and as a leadership roundtable, we worked together to get kids back to in-person classes in August and to keep them there.”