Some Ketchikan student fans hurled “racist remarks and sounds” at players from Metlakatla during a Feb. 5 high school basketball game, according to an investigation conducted by Ketchikan’s school district. The school district has issued an apology.
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With the school district’s most broad-based testing program repealed, the school district said Thursday that students and staff would be “expected to self-report” if they test positive for COVID-19. Instead of contact tracing, the district says it will offer emails to notify classmates and teachers of exposure.
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A shortage of substitutes is pulling other school employees away from their usual tasks and into understaffed classrooms, says Superintendent Melissa Johnson.
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Prince of Wales Island reported 68 COVID-19 cases in the past week — not including at-home tests. In Metlakatla, more than 50 have tested positive since Jan. 1.
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Craig schools will be all-remote next week. Ketchikan’s school district cut isolation times and plans to roll out its own COVID-19 dashboard.
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“The only time we would be out of school, not in 100% is if the community basically said we have to go on lockdown, and something’s wrong … if the borough mayor and the city mayor said, ‘OK, we can’t be having anything,'” the school district’s COVID-19 communications director said. “Otherwise, we’re in school.”
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COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in Ketchikan, and officials hope that moving some classes online will help slow the spread.
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The move to high risk could mean big changes for daily life in Ketchikan including reducing the number of kids attending classes in person and other restrictions.
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