Dear Millard Families,
As our community moves through the surge of cases from the Omicron variant, we are working to keep our schools staffed and open. This has grown increasingly difficult. Last Thursday we experienced more than 180 staff absences due to personal and family illness. This puts increasing pressure on our school staff as they try to cover classrooms without an adequate number of substitute teachers available.
To ease this impact, we will move to remote learning for the following days:
- Friday, January 28th
- Monday, January 31st
- Friday, February 11th
This will ease the building pressure on our system and give students and staff who do contract the virus a chance to recover and come back to school with fewer missed days. These days will be asynchronous, just like inclement weather days.
We remain committed to keeping our schools open to maintain a continuity of education as we navigate the surge.
Sincerely,
MPS Communicates
