Message From: https://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/
Based on valuable feedback from parents, Greenville County Schools has made important changes to our flexible in-person attendance Roadmap, known as Destination: Return to In-Person School. Many of you indicated to us that the changes would help with childcare and planning if the days were more consistent.
These revisions affect which days of the week certain students will attend school. You might remember, we divided students into four color-groupings based in the first letter of their last name.
Students whose last names begin with A-D are blue. E-K is red. L-Q is green. R-Z is purple.
Details on the Revised Plan
When conditions allow for only one day of in-person attendance, the schedule is simple: blue students attend on Monday, red on Tuesday, green on Wednesday and purple on Thursday. All students will participate in eLearning on Fridays and on days they are not physically in school.
But here’s where the change comes in. On weeks when two days of in-person attendance is permitted, blue and green students will attend on Monday, red and purple on Tuesday, blue and green again on Wednesday, red and purple again on Thursday, with eLearning for everyone on Friday and on days they are not physically in school.
This is different from the in-person attendance plan we announced on July 10, when blue and red students were to attend on Monday and Wednesday, green and purple on Tuesday and Thursday, etc. The revised system allows for more consistency as students shift back and forth between one and two day attendance schedules.
Tim Waller Discusses the New Plan
Video: FOX Carolina’s Shale Remien talks with Tim Waller with Greenville County Schools on what the options for parents look like for the upcoming school year
Fox Carolina Recaps the new plan
Dates and Information to Remember
Greenville County Schools has moved the start-date for the 2020-21 school year from August 17 to August 24, which is one week later than our original plan. Signup for the new Virtual Program option deadline is July 27! You can apply for the Virtual Option here.
This change in the start-date will not affect the end-date of the school calendar. Days will be made up as follows:
- We are an approved eLearning district now, which means “snow days” are not required to be built into the calendar. Those three days will become school days
- The first Monday of November, the day before the election, will change from a student and teacher holiday to a school day. Election Day, as mandated by law, will continue to be a student/teacher holiday.
- A teacher workday/student holiday on January 15 will become a school day.
- This gives us five additional attendance days to balance the five days we would have been in school from August 17-21.
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