At the Feb. 16 Board of Education meeting, Brian Harris shared several updates regarding the 2020-21 school year.
All Barrington 220 staff are now Phase 1B eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Appointments for the first dose started a couple weeks ago and will continue during February and March. All school nurses were vaccinated during Phase 1A.
Late last week the CDC released its updated guidelines for K-12 schools. All of the protocols Barrington 220 has been following are in accordance with these guidelines, including our health metrics on the district’s coronavirus webpage. For the second week in a row all metrics, except for Health Metric #1, have reached Step 4 (Reopen). This metric will need to improve in order to implement any further changes to our Hybrid model.
As of this week all Barrington High School freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors who wish to attend school in-person are now able to do so five days a week for a full day. This is possible due to low in-person student attendance at BHS. The district is currently developing plans for five day/week attendance at Prairie and Station, as well as full five day/week for the entire school day at the elementary level, however due to current higher in-person attendance at these grade levels, key mitigation issues still restrict this change. The district will implement these plans as soon as the opportunity exists.
A video of Harris’ updates can be viewed here.
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