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Taylorville School Board Approves Hybrid Learning To Start November 9th

Taylorville School District is expected to return to in-person learning on November 9th with a hybrid plan of 2 days in class and the other days remote learning after a special board meeting held on Friday evening. Dr. Chris Dougherty, Taylorville Superintendent, says at some point we have to bite the bullet and make adjustments.

 

 

Dr. Dougherty says that in order for this to work, parents have to check their kids at home and make sure they are healthy before they come to school. Each school will have isolation rooms where kids will go to make sure that mitigation can be taken care of. School Board President, Dr. Stephen Turner says he’s worried about the staff and the amount of stress that they have been under. Dr. Turner continued by saying that he didn’t want to lecture the public, but it needed to be done. 

 

 

Principal Karen Kuntzman, who works at North Elementary School says that she is nervous but knows that her staff is prepared.

 

 

Dr. Dougherty has stressed that if they do not have enough teachers due to COVID, they will go back to remote, but as of right now they are moving forward with the hybrid plan. There was no vote taken, only a consensus of agreement. 

 

 

Stay tuned to Regional Radio News as we will be talking more with Superintendent Dr. Chris Dougherty more next week on the plan to return to in-person learning through hybrid classes. You can still stay in remote learning if you so choose to do so, and more information on the plan will be released to the students via the Taylorville Skyward program.

 

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