Dearborn Schools Adds Remote Days So Staff Can Be Vaccinated

DEARBORN, MI — Dearborn Public Schools is planning four online learning days to allow the more than 1,400 district staff that received their first COVID vaccination shot in February dates to get their second dose, school officials said.

March 4-5, 11 and 12 will now be remote learning days in which students can remain home and expect to have mostly live instruction, the district said. Teachers will provide more specific information about their respective classes closer to those dates, officials said, but students are still expected to complete assigned work during those days.

“We appreciate the community’s patience as we work to keep staff, students and families as safe as we can in the current environment,” Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Glenn Maleyko said. “Learning remotely for these additional days will provide more continuity to students and allow teachers to work around the vaccination schedule.”

The Mondays and Tuesdays of both those weeks will still be hybrid learning days, with some students in school, according to the district. Wednesdays were already scheduled to be remote learning days.

Hybrid learning will still start on March 1 for students in kindergarten, first, second, sixth and ninth grades. Students in preschool, third, fourth, fifth, seventh and 10th grades will start hybrid learning on March 9. Grades eight, 11 and 12 will return for hybrid learning on March 15.

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In the first two weeks of hybrid learning, students will attend face-to-face class one day that week, either Monday or Tuesday depending on if they are group A or B. Their second day that week now will be replaced by remote learning.

Maleyko said previously that the district would likely need to add some remote learning days after the district found out we would be able to mass vaccinate willing staff over two days.

“Please know that even after staff are vaccinated, they will continue to follow CDC guidelines including wearing masks in schools, and we will encourage our community to continue to use social distancing and to #MaskUpDearborn until the country is able to get COVID under control,” Maleyko said.