By ROD ZOOK
Hutch Post
HAVEN, Kan. — After much discussion the Haven USD 312 School Board took no action on its pandemic gating criteria during a special meeting Tuesday.
The Board met to discuss the criteria which is currently in the orange category. That normally would mean that students in grades 6-12 would be in hybrid learning. With few if any cases of COVID in the district all schools in USD 312 are still in full in person learning.
"We're still kind of in the process of making some changes to our gating criteria," Superintendent Clark Wedel said. "It will be back on the agenda for next Monday for further adjustments."
During last night's meeting, much discussion centered around using a similar method that Buhler USD 313 went to by narrowing the scope of any changes to the learning process to a building by building basis.
USD 313 went that direction recently when a small number of positive cases at Buhler Grade School forced them into full remote learning for a week for that building. While that school was in remote learning other schools in the district stayed open. It's that type of plan the Haven School Board may decide to go to.
"Our Board is interested in knowing if there are cases or quarantines in the building that would affect its ability to continue to function as normal," Wedel said. " They want something along those lines that would be in our gating criteria."
That decision could come during the next Board meeting which is set for Monday.