Colonel Crawford Local Schools vote to get rid of “Blizzard Bags”

NORTH ROBINSON— Colonel Crawford Local Schools held their December board meeting on Monday evening.

To begin the meeting, the board approved an MOU with the school’s union, CCEA (Colonel Crawford Education Association) to get rid of blizzard bags and replace them with remote learning days for calamity days 6, 7, and 8.

“With remote learning, the kids can go right on the Google accounts and pull off a video lesson or whatever the teachers decide to post that day, and they have until 10 am to post it for the kids so they’re not doing these big, fat blizzard bag packets that aren’t related to what they are doing because blizzard bags were made up sometimes a month and a half before the day we missed,” Superintendent Todd Martin said.

With the online learning days, the teachers could do the day of, so the students are working on something that is relevant to what they are learning in class.

Students will be back in person on January 4, but the administration is going to keep an eye on January 4 and 5 to see what happens those two days from kids being on the break and being around family, to see if students can stay in person or if they need to go back to remote learning.

“We just finished the first semester this week, and they don’t even have the second semester loaded yet, so we have to go in person those first two days to get the kids on their second-semester classes and get things going,” Mr. Martin said.

Some board policies were updated, including computer/online services which is basically an acceptable use and internet safety policy.

“Now that we are in the age of remote learning, we are more and more in need to get that policy updated to be more relevant with what’s going on today,” Mr. Martin said.

The school’s COVID numbers were also discussed, and since August 20, the total number of positive cases are 4 staff, 1 HCES, 3 WCIS, 7 CCHS, and 3 Pioneer-PCTC students. To see the school’s current numbers, go to www.cck12.org and click the COVID-19 Dashboard at the top of the page.

The next meeting is on January 4 at 7 p.m.