Starting Monday, Washington High School students will be required to do coursework online from home during the COVID-19 closure. The school board in their regular meeting this week officially approved the plan of having required classes for high school students and voluntary education for kindergarten through eighth grade online through April 30th.

Superintendent Willie Stone explained that high school students will have classes from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The first and second block classes will meet an hour each on Mondays and Wednesdays, and third and fourth blocks meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays, Stone explains, “We tried to figure out, and the biggest thing was trying to figure out how can we do it so people won’t be interrupted. So, we tried to stay within that block, that hard block time so that during that time from 9-11 a.m. basically our teachers are going to be teaching, so they’re off-limits for questions. Meaning, they can email them, but they won’t get to them until later on in the day.”

Washington High School is 1:1, so all students will have access to a device. Stone adds that if students need internet access, they can connect wirelessly outside of the middle school or on the east side of the high school. Students should maintain social distancing.