“Things accelerated too quickly,” Superintendent Quoc Tran said of the surge in coronavirus cases that has over-taxed the district of 7,100 students and 900 employees.
The district will be closed Monday and Tuesday due to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and a scheduled instruction-free day. Instead of returning Wednesday, students will stay home for the rest of the week and make up the instructional hours later in the year, Tran said. Students will be sent home with a coronavirus testing kit and they will need to show a negative test to return Jan. 24.The decision comes with support of the school board, staff unions and administrators, Tran said.
Since the school district returned Jan. 3, staff have been overwhelmed by contact tracing efforts, staffing shortages and difficulties securing medical-grade masks and coronavirus tests. On Wednesday, the district sent a classroom of elementary-aged students home for remote instruction after multiple coronavirus cases were identified among students.
The days off will also hopefully alleviate fears among families about the surge, Tran said, and give families time to sign up students for regular coronavirus testing offered by the district. There are still hundreds of students who are not signed up. Tran also said the break will give his district time to prepare for possible teacher departures Jan. 18, the deadline when all staff must be vaccinated or risk losing their jobs.
To date, 4% of staff members remain unvaccinated, or 38 people. And 82% of eligible students ages 12 and older have been vaccinated, according to the district, which last month removed the deadline to focus on safety measures such as masking and coronavirus testing.
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