Coffee County Schools to Return to Regular Schedule After Labor Day

Now that Coffee County Schools has started the school year, the document titled Pathway to Re-entry 2020-2021 has served its purpose and new guidance is necessary.  When the three school districts in Coffee County developed the Pathway, the most exact information available on the spread of COVID-19 was the active case rate in Coffee County.  We are now able to monitor cases and quarantines in our schools in real-time.  For this reason, Coffee County Schools will no longer be using the active case rate for the county as a number to make decisions about the district schedule.  We will now be using district-level information related to COVID-19 to make decisions at the district, school, grade, or potentially classroom level.

The current plan is to maintain the A/B hybrid schedule through September 4.  After Labor Day, all students except those on parent-choice virtual or students who are quarantined and isolated should be able to return to their schools four days each week, Monday through Thursday.  Friday will remain a distance learning day for all students through fall break.  Our community is not close to being finished with this pandemic and there remains a risk that groups of students will need to be placed on distance learning. These Fridays will ensure that teachers and students are prepared for distance-learning possibilities. There are not any current plans to return to the A/B hybrid schedule after Labor Day. 

Procedures will remain in place at each school to help ensure the health and safety of our school family.

• Masks must be worn according to the terms of the board-issued mask requirement
• Daily temperature checks
• Frequent handwashing and hand sanitizing
• Social distancing practices when feasible
• Strategic movement of students
• Cleaning and disinfecting commonly touched surfaces and objects throughout the day

We will continue to partner with the Tennessee Department of Health as the conditions around COVID-19 continually change.

-Thank you, Charles Lawson