Richland County Community Schools works around renovation project for return to classroom

Richland County Community Schools works around renovation project for return to classroom

Across the state line.... teachers and staff are gearing up to return in richland county, illinois.

But a major project has made the return challenging.

News 10 bureau chief gary brian lays out what students can expect.

Gar} richland county community school district plans to return to the classroom at the end of the month.

However a big renovation project has put a wrench in those plans."

The plans for returning to the classroom started out not that different for richland county schools.

In person teaching has been encouraged.

But a remote option is available to students who are at risk, have at risk family, or simply are not comfortable reuting during the pandemic.

"the plan has several different versions to it.

It gets modified as new information comes about."

Class will be in-person five days a week for students kindergarten through eighth grade.

However for high school kids it's a whole different ballgame.

"the renovation plan and the pandemic together is not a good combination.

You add those two things together.

One's plenty and when you add the two together then that makes for a very challenging situation."

High school students will start the year in-person two days a week and remote learning three days.

Half of the students will be in person monday and wednesday.

The other half will be tuesday and thursday.

But they wont be on school campus quite yet.

"they're going to be at two different churches during that time period while we're still doing some finishing touches in the final few weeks of the renovation."

Freshmen and sophmores will attend classes at one church...juniors and seniors at the other.

It's an option school leaders say allows students to social distance while still getting in person learning.

While plans have been laid out...they are by no means set in stone.

"we are going to contiue to modify it as new information comes out.

We are going to continue to tweek it until really the week before."

Gar} "the first day of school is august 31st.

Working from home in vincennes, gary brian news 10."