The Mahomet-Seymour School District will return to an in-person schedule for the 2021-2022 school year, according to an email sent to parents Wednesday afternoon.
The announcement came after the Illinois State Board of Education voted to require all students to go back to class full time, with limited options for remote learning.
According to the ISBE Facebook page, “Remote instruction will be made
available for students who are both ineligible for a COVID-19 vaccine AND are under a quarantine order by a local public health department or the Illinois Department of Public Health. Flexibility also exists in other parts of the law for school districts to continue to provide remote learning to individual students, if that best meets a student’s learning needs.”
Students who do not meet these criteria may be eligible for home/hospital instruction.
The Mahomet-Seymour School District has already offered homebound instruction to one student who has a condition that has required the family to remain in lockdown, according to the student’s mother who spoke at Monday night’s board of education meeting. The homebound instruction would provide 5-hours of weekly instruction for the child. The mother asked the school district to consider options that would allow her child more instruction, as the child can handle the workload.
The ISBE decision is expected to be finalized after the 2020-21 school year ends, but is subject to favorable public health conditions at that time.
The state is not currently requiring students to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in order to return to school, but ISBE recommends that all eligible children get the vaccine prior to coming back next year.
Mahomet-Seymour will also adjust start/end times in the 2021-2022 school year.
Middletown Prairie will run from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Lincoln Trail from 8:10 a.m. to 2:40 p.m.; Mahomet-Seymour High School from 8:20 a.m. to 3:12 p.m. and Mahomet Seymour Junior High From 8:30 a.m. to 3:22 p.m. Students will not be permitted to enter the buildings more than 15 minutes prior to the first bell.
