Joel Anderson, a coach working in Queen Creek Unified School District, weighs in.
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Will class will be back in
Will class will be back in
session, Queen Creek will allow
them to return to the classroom
or opt for online learning.
Our next guest says this is
something that many in the Commu
have asked for
here with more football coach at
Queen Creek High School, Joel
Anderson.
Thank you for being with us
what led Queen creek to
welcoming students back
over the summer. Here we have
had a lot of ups and downs with
the covid situation, and our
parents in the community had
petitioned our district and
asked them about reopening and
returning to in person
education.
So it was driven by the
community here, and our district
responded
will imagine that listening to
your constituents responding
and trusting them with their own
risk assessment and decisions.
That being said coach, what
will be the standard going
forward?
What kind of infection rate
what kind of spread?
How will the school know if it
has gotten out of hand in terms
of spread of the coronavirus?
Well, we have the benchmark
standard set by the Maricopa
County, the CDC those types of
things
the district has done. All of
those things and tried to go
above and beyond as far as
mitigation factors of social
distancing, sanitation stations
mask requirements, staggering
lunches opening up open areas
of the school to try to separate
kids
auditoriums
those types of things
they are trying to do everything
they can within the restrictions
that we have from the health
experts, so that that we can
provide such a safe environment
for the kids to come back
will give me a sense if you
could coach
what percentage have opted into
online learning and how many
teachers have opted out of
coming back to school.
So I dont specifically have
the numbers of kids that are
going to be coming back.
So I teach you know, strength,
conditioning weights for the
football team
and, as far as I know now, the
student body of Queen Creek is
about two thousand one hundred students out of our
school
and when the district has been
doing survey and things before
the decision was ever made. The
numbers were coming back about.
Eighty percent of the student body or the
parents in our community were
demanding or something for
return to school
will and the teachers
yeah it was pretty similar.
I dont have those specific
numbers
will we will have to look for
that number of student? What
percentage of students and
teachers look to come back as
schools? Welcome students back
coach really appreciate your.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-15.