The Avon Maitland District School Board is looking for input from parents on how they want education delivered to their children in September.
Communications Manager Chera Longston said the Ministry of Education has provided them with three options; a normal school day with enhanced public health protocols, a modified school day routine based on small class sizes, and an alternative day or week delivery and at-home learning with ongoing enhanced remote delivery.
The board has sent out a survey to all of the board's parents explaining the three possible models and asking for feedback on the Learn at Home program that students have been participating in since early April.
It also meant reaching out to different departments.
"So for students who require special needs, their learning services department, those who require technology, like devices or internet, the IT team and then they also wanted to learn about the actual programming that occurred, whether they met with their teacher online or whether they were simply given material to do on their own," said Longston. "We've been developing plans in each of those three areas because I think we'll need to be flexible and able to move in and out of those different options. So if we plan well for all three and we have to move to another because cases increase, or they don't, then we're able to quickly pivot."
Longston said she believes that flexibility will be critical.
Surveys were sent out to all of the parents and it's also posted on the AMDSB website and should be returned by June 30.
