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THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021
District 205 approves in-person learning beginning April 12 Some parents call for Moyer to be removed immediately
district parents. One day before the March 16 meeting, the board held a special meeting. The only open portion of that meeting was the public-participation segment. The board then went into closed session to review a slate of candidates to replace outgoing District 205 Superintendent David Moyer. Earlier this year, Moy-
er was named the next superintendent of the Arlington Central School District in New York. He officially starts that position on July 1. Multiple parents who spoke during the March 15 and March 16 meetings asked the board to immediately relieve Moyer of his duties as District 205’s superintendent. Other
parents urged the district to open its schools to five full days of in-person instruction immediately. Some of the parents who spoke noted that private schools in the area have been open to full-time, in-person instruction for months. Parents who spoke also criticized the district’s practice of saliva-based COVID-19 testing of
students in grades 6-12. That testing began during the week of March 8. Some of the parents who spoke during last week’s meetings also criticized the quality of remote learning and stated the board has shown no urgency to fully reopen District
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Upset parents call for Moyer’s immediate removal The public-participation segments of last week’s two meetings featured several critical comments from
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The Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205 Board held a regular meeting on March 16 at the District 205 Center, 162 S. York St. All seven board members attended the meeting. Near the end of the meeting, board members voted unanimously to approve a plan for the district’s students to return to five full days per week of in-person learning, beginning Monday, April 12. The district has not featured a fullweek of in-person learning for more than one year. At the end of classes on March 13, 2020, all Illinois K-12 schools closed to in-person learning because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The state’s school buildings remained closed to in-person instruction for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year. District 205’s current 2020-21 school year has featured fully remote learning, as well as a hybrid model of instruction in which students who choose the hybrid model are in school buildings for two days a week. The in-person school day in the hybrid model has been about five hours long, as opposed to the typically full school day of about seven hours.
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