Beacon City School District’s Superintendent Landahl will host a digital Town Hall on Tuesday, January 13, 2021 at 7pm on the latest strategies moving forward for the second half of the school year, as the district maintains its Open status via a Hybrid/Remote model.

For the entire school year so far, students have been able to elect if they want to attend school 2 days per week, or to remain at home remotely 100%. For everyone, Wednesday is an at-home day, where a longer day of programming delivered via Google Class Rooms is planned.

There have been several COVID-19 cases of students in the district, namely at the high school and middle school, with a few at the elementary schools. For the most part, students who test positive for COVID-19 had already been isolating, and some were already in the Remote program, so were never at the school. Buildings have rarely closed, but if the student or staff had been at school near other people, then a Remote model takes place for a select number of days, announced by the Superintendent.

Dr. Landahl has emailed the district families with, what seems to be, each case reported into the school, and the decision to keep that particular building open or closed. That call seems to come in within a day or two of when the district learns about the case, as per Dr. Landahl’s framing of the message.

During tonight’s Town Hall, Dr. Landahl will address the following interest areas, as well as attempt to take questions via Chat in the Zoom setup. The link to the Zoom call has been emailed to parents, and the latest correct link is on his email dated today, 1/13/2021.

• Latest on staff vaccinations

• County guidance on close contacts/contact tracing/quarantining

• Decisions on when schools go remote temporarily

• Outline of our surveillance testing program