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Dr. Bryan Johnson, Superintendent of Hamilton County Schools, discusses the Covid challenge.

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Dr. Bryan Johnson, Superintendent of Hamilton County Schools, discusses the Covid challenge.
Dr. Bryan Johnson, Superintendent of Hamilton County Schools, discusses the Covid challenge.

Dr. Bryan Johnson, Superintendent of Hamilton County Schools, discusses the Covid challenge

All women: 19 hit, not just at home but also at ... schools.

Dr. brian johnson joins us for the coming of some update ... on the what the first semester's been like since everything went to really say ... .

Even homework.

School was a wood full: johnson the morning more just like you think you november the all mighty curveball listener we 19 hours we started dinner back in august.

Support your family sur you functional family shows on campus to publish the chosen topic virtual mode option.

A kit was enough about our teachers and leaders in their own direction.

The school board is taking place this first semeste to try to keep students educated ... to try to keep everybody will looking ahead to the next semester.

Following the christmas holiday ... break ... where we gonna be absolute so on friday we had to wait a little sharing any adjustments what we had a general conversation about we will survey a couple weeks ago about 16,000 on it about 3000 more employees in the beautiful conversations and working level of desire to research airing out to live your earlier great were able to be even more bristle getting them on campus and so were trying to do that work to better the next couple of days with them.

We will have a few adjustment but you know over overall word ... can you tell us what you learned during the first semester here ... .

Terry ... into the second semester.

Maybe some things are going to build ... on or ... and i learned several things i think we learned that the teachers are of heartbeat or school district.

We learned that you know students and families are amazingly resilient.

This community can come together and really get really challenging times.

We've also learned how to how to get a pretty good control grasp of the engagement mitigation strategie to to really try to curb the virus in our school seamless britain we have the community and others.

So that's the to be attributed to the work.

It's happening in school so well.

We want to continue to plow as we go forward with always said it is in our caregiver nudity, so it's not so much and will be in our school alone will make sure schools are resources for the inevitable pretty good job.

Mak sure is not the case.

Big business ... like you are is county school system is a business has some o this virtual learning ... is a translated into a cost- saving measure from school system unnecessarily odds probably know, just like any other investment.

The other way around.

Initially, no one things that go to mexico.

It is, we will partnership with cpb in th county of city and of the tropical relations more symmetrical and able to provide wi-fi access for free to direct economic rest of the narc and accounting and so you know their investments like that.

Investments in technology investment.

Investments in training such that you make up.

I think will see is that this opportunity to offer more choice for families available continue to be beneficial in the days li so i think there is benefit in things we learned that will be applicable as legal if you think even after the pandemic is over that someday ... degree or some level of learning from whole storm in place ... there will be more than we have seen in ... past years, you know, generally speaking, we had between 50 and 75 kids or students that were in our virtual school this year we said points in which q as many as 700 kids in it and so you know we we we don't know the 70 b the number two think there will be more of an appetite because there are some students have done better online than they have no traditional setting.

But i also think conversely that there are so many students, parents and families that see him bag the importance of the house childre teacher.

It's reuters of the data we had a ride at 8000 students that were on at home first semester that will be returning ... second semester on your own children ... adopted to this one sudden school system.

The third grader and 10 note the entire first semester.

He had a because the school may have been a day or two.

Were they had to get clothes for no toilet, but he done these done really well again his or greater, and so we were able to go and get a book with this purchase.

Many families did he said, learned how to navigate the online platforms in the so when there is a virtual day does have to be confident.just like spending a few minutes, the time will suffice.

Also, in what you ... and your entire team are doing ... frankie find out more about how to get in touch with dr. johnso by going to the county school website that is hc de dot org hc de dot

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