A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible early. Partly cloudy skies. Low around 60F. Winds light and variable..
A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible early. Partly cloudy skies. Low around 60F. Winds light and variable.
Next week, Preston County students return to the classroom. School employees started back this week.
The beginning of school is like opening a crisp new notebook, blank pages waiting to be written on by a sharp new pencil (with the eraser still intact) or new pen. Although these days perhaps a better analogy is opening that school-issued laptop for the first time, watching as programs load for the first time.
Anything seems possible in these early days of school, as students rejoin old friends and make new ones, get their first feelings of excitement as new subjects are introduced and classrooms explored.
Parents will have their own homework filling out multiple forms. As of last week, more than 950 students’ paperwork had already been completed online by their parents. Others can go onto the board web page this week or stop by the school to do a paper copy.
As noted at the most recent board of education meeting, schools underwent maintenance and deep cleanings over the summer. Some of those maintenance projects will continue after the start of school. Parents, students, staff and community members stepped up at Preston High and other schools to volunteer additional hands to help with some of that.
Security also was on the mind of the Preston County Board of Education and its staff. A county director of security has been hired, and he prepared new protocols and training for staff and students. We hope these protocols are never tested, but in today’s world, there’s no guarantee of that.
“These five protocols can be applied to nearly every situation,” County School Superintendent Brad Martin said. “Where you run into difficulties with any emergency situation is there’s always contingencies. You can’t plan for every possible contingency. What you have to look at is in these instances, which of these actions is going to be appropriate for the emergency occurring at this time?”
Security Director Mike Bittinger and Martin have personally checked every external door on schools throughout the county — 443 doors. Of those, 2% were found to be in need of repairs. Those checks will be repeated periodically.
All students will receive free school breakfast and lunch again this year, helping bodies and minds to stay healthy and grow.
We wish all Preston County’s students, school staff and parents a happy, safe and productive school year. It’s something we all have to work together for together, but our children are worth it.
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