Vigo County School Corporation heads back to school

Vigo County School Corporation heads back to school

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Well, it's that time again!

Today officially marks the beginning of school for the vigo county school corporation.

As you can imagine... this year will be quite different.

News 10's dominic miranda spoke with a mother who sent her children back to the classroom today.

He has her reaction to school starting back up again.

[take pkg] students across vigo county grabbed their backpacks *grabs backpack* and went back to school tuesday morning for the first time since march.

Communications director for vigo county schools bill riley told me... he knows this year will be different due to covid-19, but it's still an exciting time.

I also spoke with a parent of 5 children in the vigo county school corporation to get her reaction to day 1.

"i saw a school bus this morning for the first time in 5 months and i'm really excited to have our kids back in school, back to learning, back to seeing friendly adult faces in our building" excitement.

That's what bill riley kept saying his feelings were heading into the first day of school for the vigo county school corporation on tuesday.

This year, though is different.

A host of safety precautions are in place for students and staff amid the ever-changing covid-19 pandemic.

It may cause a mixture of feelings for parents sending their kids back to the classroom.

Katrina king has 2 kids at terre haute south and 3 at dixie bee elementary school.

She told me her thoughts on the situation.

"a combination of everything!

A little bit anxious.

A little concerned.

And excited as well.

For us, i really feel like school isn't going to be in session very long so, go ahead and send my kids and let them have that interaction before they are completely virtual.

My second option would have been to do the hybrid."

King told me she just wanted to have the transparency from the schools to make an informed decision for her children this school year.

She feels she got that... and admired the staff members she spoke with for making her children's safety a top priority.

"i've just been very impressed with all of the teachers and administrative staff at both schools and how they've been very welcoming to questions and providing adequate information and all the things their doing in their classroom to keep our kiddos safe."

Vigo county schools are operating under an "?b" format as riley called it.

Half of the 11 thousand kids who chose in person schooling will go every other day, with their off day being remote learning.

Riley says they'll reevaluate this model at labor day, but for now, he's just excited to have a sense of normalcy and have kids in the classroom learning again.

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