Coronavirus live updates: Here’s when MCSD students can drop off, pick up school materials
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MCSD announces plan for student item distribution, collection
Muscogee County School District has prepared plans for students to retrieve items from their assigned schools and return property issued during the 2019-20 school year.
Here’s the schedule for the distribution and collection plans:
- High schools: May 13-22
- Elementary and middle schools: May 18-22
All items will be collected and distributed through designated time frames, without contact, in accordance with CDC guidelines to prevent the spread of illness.
Each school will send specific instructions detailing pick up times, areas and guidelines for maintaining social distancing.
All individuals must present proper forms of identification upon arrival, practice social distancing, wear CDC approved face coverings/masks and proceed according to each school’s plan.
MCSD BOE meetings to continue through live stream
MCSD will conduct May work and voting sessions as scheduled through Zoom and live stream on the MCSD YouTube channel.
Requests to appear on the public agenda will be fulfilled through email. Requests should be submitted by 2 p.m. each Monday of the board meeting, through the link on the District’s website or to Karen Jones at jones.karen.p@muscogee.k12.ga.us.
This month’s meetings are at 5 p.m. May 11 and 6 p.m. May 18.
CSU professor found a unique way to help hungry students after COVID-19 closed campus
After the Columbus State University campuses closed two months ago due to the deadly coronavirus pandemic, associate professor Michelle Folta learned while teaching her music education students online that some weren’t eating nutritious meals for a variety of reasons.
During the five years she has been teaching at CSU, Folta has invited her students into her home for such a feast each semester, inspired by what professor Hunter March did for his students at the University of Texas while she was an undergrad there.
COVID-19 restrictions meant that gathering was canceled for this spring, but Folta figured out a different way to continue serving her students.
