FAQ's
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Activities: How will music teachers teach singing when guidelines stress that singing projects the virus significantly outside the social distance mandates?
Elementary is working on teacher rhythm and movement the first 9 weeks. A committee at the state level working on strategies for music teacher. Yes, employees are required to wear masks under the current state health order and additional safety precautions are also still being discussed.
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Activities: Since bands and choruses all focus their air at the director, will the director have any protections?
Yes. Employees are required to wear masks under the current state health order.
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Activities: Will my child’s game/play/field trip be cancelled?
At this time we are awaiting further guidance.
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Cafeteria Service: Will there be changes to cafeteria service for students
Our cafeterias will continue to provide food service as we have in the past. Our cafeteria workers, under the direction of our administration and the Department of Health, will implement safety protocols to ensure safe food preparation and service much like in restaurants today.
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Cafeteria: If breakfast is provided, what changes will take place?
When students eat lunch or breakfast, we will be changing our protocols to provide for additional social distancing. Breakfast will be restructured to provide for better social distancing as well as more grab-and-go options.
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Cafeteria: Middle and High school students
Middle and high school students will not be limited to eating in the cafeteria. These older students will be given flexibility to eat in other locations designated on campus including outdoors. This will allow the opportunity for students to spread out.
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Cafeteria: What steps will be taken to protect elementary students?
Our elementary students in kindergarten through sixth grade will have their eating schedules and locations changed. Elementary grades will eat in a rotating A/B schedule, using both the cafeteria and other designated eating locations. This will allow us to provide adequate social distancing and sanitization for our students. Food will be available for purchase as has been in the past. Principals will provide additional details upon return to school.
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Cafeteria: Will food be provided for students?
Our cafeterias will prepare and sell food as they have in the past.
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Contact Us: I have really important information I need to share with the school system, how do I reach out?
If you have an urgent need, or information that you think is imperative to get to Baldwin County Public Schools System leaders, please email News@bcbe.org, or you may contact the system through Facebook by visiting www.Facebook.com/BCBEAlabama.
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Contact Us: I need to contact my child’s teacher/principal, how should I do that?
If you are looking to reach your student’s teacher or administrators, please visit your local school website and find their contact information through the directory listed. You can find your school’s website by visiting www.Bcbe.org and select the school from the upper right corner.
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Contact Us: I need to reach someone with the school system, how do I find their contact information?
If you are trying to reach one of those departments, please visit www.Bcbe.org where the direct number to that department is listed.
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General Information: Does BCBE have a plan to close schools?
We have a plan to close on a ‘school by school’ basis as needed or system wide. We can close for a few days to allow for a deeper clean or to allow a hot spot to diminish. We can close by order of a higher government official or because we are convinced that such is in the best interest of our employees, students and our community. We will not make this decision lightly. We respect the situation of our families and the necessity of schools to continue to deliver on the dependency we have to everyone else in our area. It will be made after consultation with medical, health and government officials and for something much greater than what we are facing this summer.
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General Information: If my student is absent with COVID-19 will they be excused?
The student’s absences will be excused and they will be able to continue to their academic work from home, digitally, under our distance learning plan as outlined.
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General Information: Is distance learning and virtual school the same thing?
All of our classes in traditional school are being tracked digitally with your child. Our teachers and administrators are being required to complete significant professional development before starting school. This ensures they are up to speed on all of our new digital requirements for distance learning. We are prepared to switch our traditional students immediately to distance learning as a whole system, as an individual school or on a student by student basis as a result of sickness. All of their work, assignments, lessons and studies are posted and will be available digitally on Google Classroom each day. As of the first day of school, we are prepared make this move at any moment and without further preparation.
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General Information: Is my child learning at the same pace as traditional school?
All of our classes in traditional school are being tracked digitally with your child. Our teachers and administrators are being required to complete significant professional development before starting school. This ensures they are up to speed on all of our new digital requirements for distance learning. We are prepared to switch our traditional students immediately to distance learning as a whole system, as an individual school or on a student by student basis as a result of sickness. All of their work, assignments, lessons and studies are posted and will be available digitally on Google Classroom each day. As of the first day of school, we are prepared make this move at any moment and without further preparation.
