News Release

SYRACUSE — Thursday morning, Nov. 12, the Wawasee Community School Corporation submitted the following letter from Dr. Stephen Troyer, assistant superintendent, announcing Nov. 23-24 will both be eLearning days for all students in the school corporation.

Approval was given for this by the school board during the regular monthly meeting Tuesday, Nov. 10.

“The past couple of weeks have seen an increase in positive cases of COVID-19 in our county and local communities. After working with the Kosciusko County Health Department, we announced Wawasee High School would transition to a virtual learning model through this Friday, Nov. 13. As we mentioned in our public statement Nov. 5, our local health department does not consider schools to be significant spreaders of the virus, but we aren’t immune to close contact quarantines that impact our ability to fully staff our schools.

“The decision to go to a virtual learning model at Wawasee High School has allowed us to continue to adequately staff our other school buildings and keep them open for in-person learning for the time being. An additional measure we will be taking to help control the spread of COVID-19 and limit the number of close contact quarantines is to hold eLearning days rather than in-building learning Monday, Nov. 23, and Tuesday, Nov. 24. This will provide an opportunity for students and staff to be apart for nine days over the Thanksgiving holiday, and hopefully limit the number of students and staff who would be quarantined during this time.

“Teachers will be working with students and families to prepare for these two planned eLearning days and will provide lessons for those two days like we have done in the past. We ask that you remain diligent during the Thanksgiving holiday and follow recommendations from health officials regarding social functions. It is only through our mutual efforts that we will be able to keep all our buildings open during the upcoming winter months. We will continue to actively monitor the situation in the coming days and if further changes are necessary we will make those announcements as soon as possible.”