Rochester Public Schools survey parent opinions about options

Seeking public feedback, schools conduct survey

A look at tonight's memorial bike ride./// thanks for joining us for kimt news 3 at ten.

I'm george mallet.

First tonight: as the rochester public school district prepares for the first day of school?

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" options are well documented.

They are in?

"* person learning... distance learning or a hybrid model.

To get a better view of parents feelings about those options rochester public schools launched a survey.

Today ?

"* te superintenden t presented the findings.

Kimt news 3's isabella basco has a look at what moms and dads have to say ?

"* isabella?

Xxx more than 3900 people responded to a family survey.

The feedback is across the map ?

"* but some parents tell me they would like their kids to return to some form of normalcy.

The results.... <nat of drum > are in.

Here... you can see a graph indicating how parents feel about learning options for the coming school year.

Of the parents surveyed... 44 percent, felt most comfortable with in?

"*person learning.

Roughly 33 percent were most comfortable with distance learning.

"i would like to see in?

"*person but i can definitey see arguments for the other ways too."

Fully 46 percent of parents surveyed are uncomfortable with distance learning..

"being home the last semester was basically a disaster.

The kids didn't learn hardly anything."

Many parents believe the benefits of opening schools outweigh the risks.

"kids are social beings and they miss their friends, they were really struggling with being separated."

"some common themes the district took away from the survey are safety: helping children with proper mask wearing, emphasizing hand sanitizer in classrooms and in buses and avoiding large?

"*scae events.

"we went above and beyond most districts have done in order to create three different models."

Superintenden t michael munoz is confident in a smooth start to the school year, still parents we spoke with believe "normal" is a long way off.

The district says they hope to release the model on friday.

Live in rochester ib kimt news 3.

Thanks isabella.

If you'd like to take a closer look at the survey results yourself ?

"* hed over to kimt dot com./// the rochester school board tackled a myriad of tough topics today ?

"* including the insidious virus that has become the center of nearly all discussions.

The district plans on having a covid coordinator in every building in the district.

Those people have not been assigned yet ?

"* but the district is looking at using administration in collaboration with nurses.

Rps will be in direct contact with olmsted county public health in the event a student or staff member tests positive.

Xxx "we're notified ahead of time whether it's a staff member that contacts us or a parent or student themselves.

We contact the county and they are able to help us walk through that process.

We take guidance from them and they tell us who needs to quarantine and for how long."

If and when the district has to communicate with families or groups of people on a positive case of coronavirus... the county will prepare a letter with all the