December 4, 2020
Schools Are Trying to Avoid Covid COVID-Cation Alexis Swoyer, Social Media Editor With COVID-19 cases growing, schools around the state have been shutting down or starting to take breaks within the weeks at school. Some schools in the Lehigh Valley Area have been doing a different type of schedule than the BASD and have been seeing more closings because of it. The BASD is trying to keep students in school for as long as possible without any closings. The BASD is one of the only districts in the area to not have a COVID closing since the end of August of this year. All parents and students of the district have seen multiple videos from Dr. Roy over the past few months about updates on closings
and the school schedules. On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving break, all students and teachers had zoom meetings throughout the day to have as a test run incase of any type of COVID closing. The test run days had both groups of students combined in their classes for the zoom meetings. They had said that if schools do eventually shut down students would continue the hybrid scheduling on zoom classes. Some schools around the Lehigh Valley Area have decided to extend their Thanksgiving break a week or two longer and choose to do all online classes to try to decrease the surge of cases after the holiday.
Lehigh Valley Academy has chosen to stay closed with all remote learning until January 4th. With the increases in cases in Northampton County they have chosen to stay closed in between the holidays. They still have not yet decided how they will continue their learning when they return back to school. Saucon Valley had taken an extra week off from their Thanksgiving break, to avoid any type of exposure to the virus throughout the school. Schools around the country and state are trying their best to stay open so students can get as close to normality as possible. It is also hard for students to
be focused while being completely online. Hopefully after the holidays all schools will be open and running without having to worry about closing again.
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