The three traditional high schools within the Vigo County School Corporation—Terre Haute North, Terre Haute South, and West Vigo—will move to an alternating A/B schedule starting tomorrow, Thursday, October 29. Grades K-8 and alternative programs will continue attending school five days per week.
The switch is due to cases transmitted at social events outside of school causing large numbers of students to be quarantined for 14 days because of close contact. An A/B schedule will allow for more distancing in classrooms and cafeterias and reduce quarantines among students, causing less disruption to a student’s education.
“We know the best education we can offer is in-person, five days per week,” said Dr. Rob Haworth, superintendent. “We also know, based on the events of the last two weeks, that our five-day-per-week schedule has become more disruptive than our previous A/B schedule.”
The district will observe one more remote learning Monday on Monday, November 2, allowing high school staff and students to practice with the district’s remote learning tools in the event of full remote learning.
A high school calendar for the rest of the year can be found here.
High school students attended five days per week starting Monday, October 19, after a month of blue and yellow ratings for Vigo County on the state’s color-coded map. Vigo County is orange today for the second week in a row, and the number of daily new cases are the highest since the start of the pandemic.
The district will continue to monitor cases and quarantines in all buildings, especially among staff, to make school-by-school decisions regarding remote learning.
