With the remainder of the school year cancelled across the state, the Adel-DeSoto-Minburn School Board has decided how to handle learning options over the next month.

Superintendent Greg Dufoe says the Board approved the District’s updated COVID-19 response at a special meeting Monday evening, which continues their path of voluntary educational opportunities for students. Dufoe says the options available to them ranged from doing nothing to mandatory learning, but they decided continuing a voluntary curriculum was best. “As we trace the evolution of our planning and our support available for parents and kids, I feel it’s really impressive. We really have stayed in tune with the realities that all of us are facing, and what’s reasonable to expect students and families to do in the midst of a pandemic where families are facing circumstances we never anticipated. So the amount of work (and) what we’re asking kids to do in this closure period is reasonable, and what our teachers are putting out for our kids to do I think is really, really good.”

Dufoe adds, the teachers and students have interacted in a variety of ways, and he’s been astounded at how it’s all been done. As for grading and assessments, he says their plan is still to give students the option of either taking their grade they had when the closure began or to improve it through continued learning, and there will be no required tests at the end of the year. To learn more about this and other ADM topics, listen to today’s Perry Fareway Let’s Talk Dallas County program on air and at RaccoonValleyRadio.com.