Dodson Public Schools to hold Aug. 11 meeting to discuss reopening

Last week Dodson Public School Superintendent Gary Weitz sent letters home to students, parents, teachers and other staff informing them of a meeting to discuss the start of school in 2020 with social distancing and CDC recommendation as COVID-19 continues to hamper regular school openings across the US.

“At our June school board meeting, I presented a plan for reopening school with student attendance in the brick and mortar building daily beginning on August 19,” Weitz said. “This plan was constructed after constant one on one conversations with our local building staff, the governor’s office, representatives from OPI and their guidelines, Montana State Health Dept., our state teacher’s union, and our legal representation Montana School Board Association. We feel that our plan carefully covers sanitation matters, monitoring matters, social distancing structures, mask wearing options, labor concerns, employee concerns and accommodations. We are completely confident of our plan if reopening is allowed on August 19.”

A townhall type meeting has been set up for Tuesday, August 11 at 7 p.m. at the school’s gymnasium. Those who don’t feel comfortable attending the meeting but have questions and concerns are encouraged to E-mail their thoughts to Sup. Weitz at [email protected].