Jennings said the health district showed appreciation for the safety and health protocols the academy is taking.
“The Clark County Combined Health District expressed their appreciation for the measures we are taking in providing a creative model that allows for distancing in our school. This blended model allows us to maintain six feet of distance between our students for the majority of the day,” he said.
Jennings added that the blended model also limits the number of students that would have to quarantine if there was a positive case of COVID-19 in the school.
“If we were to increase the density of students in our building, we would not be able to distance and if a positive case of COVID were to occur, it is possible that a lot of students would have to be quarantined. The quarantining of students affects much more than a student’s ability to attend school in person. When quarantined, students also have to be removed from any other activities that they may be involved in,” he said.
Blended learning students are divided into two groups by the last digit of their student ID, and students in the same household are in the same group.
Group A attends school in person on Monday, Tuesday and every other Friday, while Group B attends school in-person on Wednesday, Thursday and every other Friday.
The stem academy transitioned students to blended learning at the beginning of October from online learning, which they started with in the fall when schools reopened.
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