001hello chris cooper superintendent clearwater schools here to give you a brief update about how things have been going in our district actually they've been going quite well considering everything um i would say they've been going amazing but they have not been going easy it is a difficult challenge before us and not just for staff but for students parents and everyone and we recognize that first of all i did want to start off by just saying thank you thank you to our parents for having kids prepared and ready to go to school this year with all the changes and for just rolling with the flow of how we've had to do things differently i appreciate the staff greatly the effort that they have put in before and during these three weeks has been tremendous and some
002other stress levels are are getting really high one of the things i would ask our community if you know a teacher live by a teacher have kids in class if you could just reach out to our staff not just our teachers you know it's been difficult for custodians bus drivers food service everyone in our organization so if you could just reach out to them and tell them you appreciate them doing the things that have to be done so we can have school in our community i think that would mean a lot it won't make their jobs easier but we'll let them if you could just let them know you appreciate the work that they have been doing to just make school happen this year i think that would go a long ways and would be
003greatly appreciated i do want to thank our community our community's been very supportive i talk a lot with other superintendents and every time i do i'm thankful to be in clearwater where i'm new but have been quickly accepted into this community and i'm so excited to be here and definitely not least of all i want to thank our students because from pre-k to seniors they have done anything we have asked they are doing what it takes to have school under a certain certain situat current situation and current orders from sedgwick county and from the state and everything that we have to do they've been great above and beyond expectations and we should have had those high expectations for them but there's always that fear of well how are students going to handle this they've handled
004it great very well i did want to let you know we have no changes planned for next week or having school as not normal but as coveted normal as we continue to move forward we finished the full week of school this week and things have been going as well as could be expected with that i wanted to give you also a brief covet update of our county and also our district so currently our county's been trending well zip code's been trending well but we are not there yet we still have to do all the things in school and not in school that will continue to let us have school so i encourage everyone in our community to continue doing the things that will keep these numbers down that will allow us to have school for
005school i'd also ask again for parents to check for symptoms and report those symptoms anything that doesn't seem right let our school nurses know yes it might cause a brief quarantine but it's better than the alternative of what might happen so we'd encourage you to continue doing those things we'll continue our temp and health screenings as well but we really need parents to be involved in assessing their child's health and letting us know so uh i want to give an update on our current numbers for our district so we have had numerous students and staff in quarantine for various reasons whether that's uh some symptoms that may or may not be covered related whether that's a close contact outside of school at this point or we have had some in side of school county health
006will notify those people if that has happened and that's that system has worked fine for us we have some people that have been in quarantine because of a positive case in the home and our current numbers overall since we've started school we've had 19 students and three staff members that have been in some sort of quarantine for some length of time currently we have eight students and two staff members we do expect uh some of those to return on monday unless something changes that we're not aware of yet so again various reasons that we've had people quarantined and we know this is just going to be an ongoing thing as we go through this year i appreciate the teachers doing the best we can to get a solid education to those students while they're in
007quarantine and the their work i just want to know notice that the work that they've done has made a difference for those kids so overall thanks for the efforts again i really appreciate the staff reach out to them if you get a chance and tell them you appreciate them we've had various activities several days of school now three weeks and overall as i said when i started things have been going as well or better than can be expected and just want to let everybody know we appreciate our community and we're excited to be having school and hope to just be able to continue to have school on site and do the best we can to deliver an amazing education for every child so have a great weekend go indians and come by and see me
008sometime i look forward to meeting more and more of our community take care