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The Voice of Seguin Today
Volume 55, Number 116
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Seguin ISD takes a look at potential plans for the 2020-2021 school year Sean Hoffmann, the chief communications officer for the Seguin ISD, says the idea behind the task force is to lay out all possible options in which to safely educate students across the district.
By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- The Seguin ISD Board of Trustees got its first glance at what the upcoming school year could look like should the
COVID-19 pandemic continue Reopening Schools. The task across the country. force which consists of district employees has spent Trustees Tuesday night the last few weeks trying to received an update from the figure out ways to better appointed Task Force for accommodate students.
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students will be at home doing the remote learning at home five days a week. So, again, a lot depends on what the state tells us in the next several weeks, the next month, month and a half on what they envision the school day to look “Just as the parents are eager to like,” said Hoffmann. learn, we are eager to learn to but it would be premature at this point With its potential options, right now to say that we’ve got a Hoffmann says there are still key set plan of what the first day of components of a regular school school is going to look like or day that the district would find what the first week of school is challenging. going to look like. We’ve got a task force of district employees “We know that there are going to who are looking at all the different be challenges aside from the scenarios on what the school year obvious learning and the might look like,” said Hoffmann. importance of learning which is why our kids are in school, As for those scenarios themselves, transportation is going to be an Hoffmann says at this point, there issue as far as trying to figure out are a wide range of possibilities. any social distancing, rules and regulations that are going to be in “It can range anywhere from place and how we are going to take what we are calling face to face care of that. We can’t transport our which would be a normal students to and from school with school day where you’ve got 12 kids on a bus, on a bus that children in the classroom five holds 60 kids. It’s just not efficient. days a week to a hybrid or We’d be transporting kids all day blended learning scenario in and they wouldn’t be in class for which we have students in class any valuable period of time during for a portion of the week and at the day so that’s something that we home doing remote learning for are going to have to look at and we another portion of the week and are hoping to get some guidance then we are also preparing for on,” said Hoffmann. the third scenario in which See SEGUIN ISD, page 2