After lessons were moved from the classroom to at home at the end of spring, many students and parents are wondering what school might look like for Carroll ISD in the fall. The CISD board of trustees met on Monday to discuss what some of those options might look like.
CISD Superintendent Dr. David Faltys presented three plans under consideration to return to school in the fall. Dr. Faltys says the first plan would have school resume as normally scheduled, while the second plan would be a hybrid model between on-campus attendance and social distancing. The third plan would involve stay-at-home instruction, though not in the same way students recently experienced in the spring.
“We’re currently planning on a little more interaction, a little more instruction,” Dr. Faltys explains. “We’re looking at all three of those options right now.”
Regardless of whether students return to school in the fall or not, Dr. Faltys says the district is taking precautions to make a healthy and clean environment for students and staff on campus. Dr. Faltys says the state purchased 50 million disposable masks and 10 million disposable gloves for Texas school districts, and Carroll ISD will receive a portion of them this summer. The district will also implement hand sanitizer stations and disinfectant wipes on campuses by the end of July.
“We’re going to receive 76,088 disposable masks, 30,566 disposable gloves, 62 touch-free thermometers, 782 gallons of hand sanitizer and there’s still to be determined whether or not they’ll send us 19,022 reusable masks for staff,” Dr. Faltys says.
The district is also considering updating the 2020-2021 school calendar to add two exchange weeks at the end of June if the district needs to close again for a second wave of COVID-19. However, board president Michelle Moore says they’re waiting on further instruction from the Texas Education Agency before taking action on that item.
Dr. Faltys says a survey will be sent out to parents in the next few weeks to gauge their comfortability on potentially returning to campus in the fall. To stay up to date regarding the district’s ongoing response to COVID-19, go to CISD’s #SAFEdragon page at SouthlakeCarroll.edu.