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San Antonio-area school district leaders discuss future of classrooms, sports, budget constraints amid COVID-19 pandemic

Jacque Colbert by Jacque Colbert
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SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio-area faculty districts are engaged on a plan to have college students return to the classroom in the summertime and fall.

College district leaders say they should be versatile and able to pivot based mostly on the fluid state of affairs and the way tips change weekly because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

San Antonio ISD Superintendent Pedro Martinez and Northside ISD Superintendent Dr. Brian Woods say they’re engaged on a plan that may finest serve the households of their district.

“I might inform the neighborhood, let’s take it semester-by-semester,” Martinez stated.

The plan for each can be to have a blended sort of atmosphere, the place college students are supplied prolonged on-line studying and in-classroom studying. The leaders have realized that digital lecture rooms work for some households, however not all.

“We’ve realized that there’s a group of scholars that this isn’t the most suitable choice for, and as quickly as we are able to get them again in a constructing, they are going to be higher served,” Woods stated.

For Martinez, a number of the challenges additionally embrace the dearth of web entry for some college students.

College students can anticipate lunchtime to be totally different and can doubtless happen in lecture rooms. If social distancing tips proceed, which will imply fewer college students on the bus and extra buses on the street to move them. Contact sports activities will even doubtless be absent.

Martinez stated some faculties are extra accommodating for social distancing, whereas different campuses are too small, and kids would possibly want to separate their time between prolonged studying and classroom studying. The potential of a monitor system and perhaps even a morning- and afternoon-type schedule have additionally been talked about.

Martinez stated he must be very open to the wants of the working dad and mom in his district.

“My purpose is I wish to be a assist for our households,” Martinez stated. “I wish to be a assist for our native economic system. I’ve informed our employees it might look totally different from faculty to high school simply based mostly on what’s taking place, you recognize, with the wants of the kids and the wants of these households.”

Woods stated plans are within the works to begin summer time faculty with a bigger variety of college students than common at NISD. He’s additionally pushing for the autumn semester to start in early August, a number of weeks forward of schedule.

He stated some dad and mom are open to distance studying and would love that possibility.

However the further planning, extra assets and extra purchases in expertise will doubtless take a toll on their budgets.

“Till you recognize and we are able to predict what the mannequin shall be, how precisely we’re gonna serve college students, it is a bit of bit exhausting to say what the impression of the funds shall be,” Woods stated. “Definitely, any of those choices are costlier than what we historically do. Colleges are designed for effectivity. They’re actually not designed for social distancing.”

KSAT reached out to different faculty districts to search out out their summer time faculty and fall plans.

Somerset ISD stated July is a goal month for ramping up classroom periods, assuming the district can have college students in lecture rooms by then. But when college students are restricted to distance or distant studying, the district won’t be going that route in the summertime.

South San Antonio ISD stated it’s nonetheless engaged on a summer time plan, and officers will know extra later this week.

A spokesperson for the Texas Training Company stated they’re in fixed communication with superintendents throughout the state. As a result of fluid state of affairs, the TEA has not but offered steerage on finest practices associated to summer time instruction or the 2020-2021 faculty 12 months, however they’re forthcoming.

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