Robinson school district begins planning for new school year

The new school year will look different due to COVID-19.

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The covid-19 pandemic made school leaders across the valley scamble across the valley scamble to finish the school year.

Now... all eyes are on how things will look this fall.

News 10 bureau chief gary brian tells us how one school district is already making preparations.

//////// gar} "summer vacation is just weeks old for students here in robinson illinois.

However school leaders are already looking at what next school year might look like during the covid-19 pandemic."

Yard signs celebrating 2020 seniors line the outside of robinson high school.

They're just little evidence that things have not been the same this year.

"this is one of those things they don't teach in superintendent training."

Superintendent josh quick says his staff did well.

Now they are looking to the fall.

"it is very complicated to try to put together a comprehensive plan at this point in time without knowing what the end result is going to be.

We don't know whether it's going to be remote learning, whether it's going to be in person, or it's going to be somewhere in between."

Quick is expecting somewhere inbetween.

The illinois phase three plan allows for groups of 10 or smaller.

That gives the school's drivers ed program the green light.

"we have an opportunity to kind of do some trial runs of some of our procedures and hopefully learn some things we'll be able to scale up if and when we are able to return with larger groups of students later in the fall."

The priority is student safety.

Quick says they plan to follow the state mandates as they are put into place.

"we're not going to do anything ever less then stringent than what they're telling us.

But we may locally decide we need to do something more restrictive or more stringent just out of safety for our own situation."

Gar} "phase four is planned to begin by the end of the month.

In robinson, gary brian news 10."

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