HOWELL – At a time when district officials are making the tough decision on how to reopen schools in September, some sports practices had to be cancelled because students were possibly exposed to COVID-19 at a non-school event.
Howell High School cancelled their football and volleyball workouts were cancelled after possible exposure to the coronavirus at an event that wasn’t on school grounds, a district official told NJ.com.
The official said that the incident was also reported to the department of health.
The Freehold Regional High School District will be going all remote in September, and then transitioning to hybrid in mid-October.
District Superintendent of Schools Dr. Charles B. Sampson announced recently that over the past several months the district along with members of its Restart Committee and Community Focus Group created a comprehensive reopening plan.
He said however that “unfortunately, a significant number of employee workplace accommodations and leave requests will not allow us to adequately staff our buildings in a manner that provides for effective teaching and learning to occur in our hybrid schedule.
The superintendent said what this means is that the Freehold Regional High School District will start its school year on Sept. 10 with a fully remote schedule.
“As neighboring districts move to a full remote schedule, the number of our employee requests under the FFCRA has increased exponentially. We now face a staffing challenge making opening in the Hybrid Schedule impossible at this time. We expect staffing needs to be met for the transition to the hybrid schedule on Monday, Oct. 19,” Sampson said.
