By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — USD 309 Nickerson-South Hutchinson Superintendent Curtis Nightingale hopes the school year will start as close to normal as possible in his district.
"We're going to start with masks recommended, not required," Nightingale said. "We're still going to kind of control access in the building in terms of students coming in in the morning, grab and go breakfast, going directly to classes, just trying to kind of prevent a headache in terms of contact tracing if we did have some kind of an outbreak of something."
Nightingale knows that the situation will change day by day so communication with parents will be key, if policy has to shift based on increasing numbers.
"With our autodialer, we can reach out to families in real time," Nightingale said. "Then, we'll be posting that information on our social media pages, etc. It's just difficult and it's not popular, but it's just kind of the hand we're being dealt."
Nightingale is glad that the school board and district leadership are on the same page, with the shared goal of keeping kids in school, in person as much as possible.
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