Coronavirus Update #5
March 10, 2020
Dear LREI Community,
I write to tell you of a change in LREI’s schedule for this week. LREI will be open for full days of school through Thursday, March 12. We will be closed for students on Friday, March 13. We will offer free childcare for all students in the 4s through sixth grade on Friday. (In order to sign up for childcare complete the form that Kenna Mateos will send home on Wednesday.)
It is important for me to be clear that we have not been informed of any member of the LREI community who has been exposed to the coronavirus. There are no increased risk factors, that we know of, for the next two days.
For the past few weeks, the faculty and staff throughout the school have been providing the daily program that your children enjoy all year long and have been keeping the LREI operation humming along. At the same time, we have all been preparing for the possibility that we will need to translate our progressive program and vibrant community into its digital doppelganger – LREI@home – for some time after Spring Break. The school’s administrative leadership team decided this afternoon that we need more time to ready our plans and will spend all day Friday dotting our digital “i’s” and crossing our digital “t’s,” much in the same way that we plan each day of our mission-driven program.
We realize that this will create challenges for families and we apologize for this. While we do not like to give up even one day of school the time the faculty and staff will have together on Friday will make LREI@home more fruitful and meaningful, if indeed we are closed. We especially don’t like missing Founders Day. Given the circumstances, I think that Elisabeth Irwin would understand. We will reschedule parts of our Founders Day tradition for after the break.
To recap:
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LREI will be open for all children on Wednesday, March 11 and Thursday, March 12. All programs and events will run, as well, including the High School Winter Theatre Showcase on Thursday evening.
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We will be closed for children on Friday, March 13.
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We are closing to support the added workload the teachers and staff have in preparing for the potential for remote learning in April. There has been no known coronavirus exposure at LREI.
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We will offer free childcare on Friday, March 13 for students in the 4s – sixth grade. Kenna Mateos will send a sign-up form on Wednesday morning. It is important that you sign up if you want to take advantage of this childcare opportunity.
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Our current plan is to reopen on schedule on Monday, March 30. We will be in touch over the break to confirm this.
As always, we appreciate your understanding and encourage you to be in touch with questions or concerns.
Warmly,
