As school districts continue to prepare for the upcoming school year, the Adel-DeSoto-Minburn School District  is looking to return to more normalcy. 

Superintendent Greg Dufoe says as the school district continues to review its Return-to-Learn Plan, and they are hoping to return  to pre-pandemic protocols.. 

“Really when we described the very draft form of the Return-to-Learn Plan the expression really is a return to pre-COVID operations. That’s our plan, we are required by state law to provide in-person learning. As many districts, we were one of many, we didn’t need state law to compel us to do that, we did that anyway.”

Dufoe tells Raccoon Valley Radio they have anticipated having full in-person education in the fall when school starts again. He says there will be other changes that haven’t been in place since the pandemic began last year. 

“We do plan on returning to no limits on how we are going to provide instruction. That means no limits on physical distancing, we are going to allow flexible grouping and all of those things that we need to be able to utilize in order to instruct our kids at the highest level.”

Dufoe says the Return-to Learn Plan will continue to be looked at until students begin to enter the 2021-2022 school year on August 30th.