001hello chris cooper here with a brief superintendent update on friday january 22nd 2021 i have some good news and some not so good news we'll start off with the not so good news unfortunately today uh this afternoon we did have to close our preschool for today this afternoon and next week and that is simply because we don't have staff to demand that that room right now as all our staff that's normally there is out on quarantine so preschool will resume on tuesday february 2nd and since i mentioned february 2nd just a reminder that february 1st is a no school day it's a teacher training day so no school on february 1st again to remind you of that many of you may have heard that kansas high school activities association or acacia had made a change
002to their ruling starting january 29th that would allow up to four spectators instead of just two parents or guardians our abctl league is meeting next wednesday to discuss some of that because we currently have a league restriction of 25 percent capacity that still puts us at two uh spectators per participant but there's a very likely chance that that won't be restricted to just parents and guardians starting on the 29th our activities directors are working on our system as how we can manage that for our winter sports so more to come on that next week and appreciate them doing a nice job of keeping everybody informed just a brief covered numbers update our students are as good as they've been in a long time on that front we only have one student out for positive covert
003right now and 29 students out for any positive reason any coveted reason whether that's symptoms or being a close contact some of those are close contacts at school most of those are close contacts outside of school in the home our staff's a little different situation we currently have two staff members out for positive one who has been positive and is now still uh not feeling well and then we have a total of 13 staff out and i would say elementary west has currently been hit the hardest with quarantines for being close contact so some struggles to get classes covered appreciate everybody stepping up and and taking care of what needs to be taken care of um as i said very brief update won't try to drag these out that's all i have for this week
004i'm headed over to watch some basketball looking forward to the time when we can pack the stands again as we did a year ago to watch our teams play in sub state i do believe we'll get back to that uh keeping keep listening to our updates uh as we continue to change particularly on the spectator guidelines wish everybody the best take care be safe out there have a great weekend bye