Bulldog Update - Fall Working Together Plan
Montesano S.D. Students and Families:
I want to thank you for your patience and understanding of the difficult situation we are all facing with the start of the school year. Over the course of the summer, things have been constantly changing and I want you to know that we are working very hard to provide the best instruction we can for our students while making sure we are also keeping in mind the health and safety of our students, staff, and families.
While I know this is far from the perfect scenario for our students, based on the recommendations from the county health department as well as guidance from the state, we have determined that it is necessary to start the year with remote learning for all of our students. This does not mean that we have committed to a remote model for the entire school year, and we hope that things improve enough to where we can start bringing students back for face-to-face instruction sooner rather than later. We will be monitoring the situation on a weekly basis and will continue to communicate as the school year progresses.
We acknowledge that the instructional process in the spring was not ideal and that many students and parents had frustrations with how things went, and we felt those frustrations as well. I want to make it clear that this was not how we would have preferred things to go, but we were restricted by mandates from the state. I can assure you that the remote instructional model this fall will be a far different and much improved model that will include the accountability and continued learning that we were not able to provide in the spring. Our staff is very committed to making this a positive and enriching educational experience for all of our students.
In this document, you will see all the planning that has gone into the start of this school year including all of the potential instructional models that may occur as we work through this together.
No one imagined or wanted the kind of disruption and risk that we have had. I know we can tackle these challenges and grow as a result, though, and I thank everyone for their role in doing so.
Dan Winter
Superintendent