eaders at Logansport Schools feel more prepared for second semester during pandemic
LCSC welcomed back students on Tuesday.
There isn't exactly a rule book on operating a public school corporation during a global pandemic, but the lessons learned from the first semester are helping make this second semester feel less daunting.
School corporation welcomed students back to the classroom today.
And with one covid- focused semester under their belt, school leaders say they feel more prepared for this second semester.
News 18's anna darling found out how.
Ll intro the last time i talked with logansport superintendent michele starkey, there was a lot of questions, concerns and unknowns before them as they went back to school in august.
There isn't exactly a rule book on operating a public school corporation during a global pandemic.
But the lessons learned from the first semester are helping make this second semester feel less daunting.
Pkg "it was tiring it was stressful and it continues to be that" logansport community school corporation made it through the first semester in a covid-19 world relatively unscathed.
"when we started the school year, if anybody had said we were going to make it through the semester i would have laughed.
My glass is always half full, but it was touch and go for quite some time."
But thanks to consistently encouraging mask wearing and social distancing, and lots of rolling with the covid punches, superintendent starkey says their case numbers weren't debilitating.
"it was far below what ever i thought it would be for students.
The great thing to know is that everything we did mitigation wise kept kids and staff from contracting the virus at school" numbers stayed low at the elementary level, which stayed in- person learning all semester.
The junior and senior high kids moved to a hybrid schedule mid semester.
Flexibility and strong communication with the pubc are valuable lessons they are bringing with them into the new semester.
"you do have a sense of ok we've been through the first semester, we've made it, we made changes on the fly and so just knowing that we were able to successfully do that gives you that confidence going forward."
And she couldn't be more proud of how her berries are doing.
"we will someday look back on this and say wow look at everything we did during these hard times.
And we did it for our students and i think that just says a lot about the people within our district.
And i think it says a lot about people in public education period."
Ll tag starkey says the hope of the vaccine coming is what's keeping them going.
The plan at logansport schools is to continue with hybrid learning through spring break for the older grades.
They will re-evaluate then and decide if it's safe to finish the year with fully in-person learning.
