How do pool noodles, hula hoops and hand sanitizer help with reopening schools? A rural Montana school shows the way.
WILLOW CREEK, Mont. — Teachers at Willow Creek School in Montana wore cloth face masks and held 6-foot-long pool noodles while a handful of students played in the grass in front of the school.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock announced March 15 that all schools in the state would close to in-person instruction. By late April, Bullock unveiled plans to reopen the state in a phased approach, which allowed local school boards to reopen schools to students as early as May 7. "I think it's been challenging for both the students and the staff," Lower said."Even though we're back in school and we're trying to do things normally, we do have to adjust certain things."The decision to reopen simply wasn’t possible in some districts, officials said.
Despite their preparations for reopening, Lower said a few small things had been overlooked. One example: condiments in the lunch room. Students normally shared ketchup and mustard bottles.To remedy the situation, one staff member handles the condiment at a time.'I'm not a teacher' For the first couple of weeks, Duvall tried to let her children do the work at their own pace, but they would sleep in and wouldn't get much school work done during the day. So she implemented a new schedule that emulated a normal school day: waking her children before she went to work at 7 a.m., with specific time for regular breaks and lunch.
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