All of the buses will be doing the same thing tomorrow that they did today. The only one I have not heard from is Brandis. When I hear from her I will message her bus directly.
Rotary and Recovery Council Scholarship applications adding to Senior Information.
Bus 15 will not be running on Muddy Road this morning. Everything else will be normal time.
I was just notified that Jimmy Cox won’t be running his part of Leeth Creek.
As always if the bus does not run your road students will not be counted absent. It will be excused. I apologize for so many messages. I didn’t know any better way to do it.
Bus 19 will run everything normal except she needs students to meet her at the end of the blacktop. She can’t turn around at the end of the road
Bus five will not run Beekman Ridge. Meet her at the end at 7:10 if you want to ride the bus.
I apologize for the late notification. I’ve been at the boys basketball game and didn’t have everyone’s information to put a message out about the route. Most routes will be ran at normal time. I’m going to send out messages to individual buses about route restrictions. If you don’t get a call or text from me then your boss will be running on time. I can only go on with the drivers let me know today. I will relay that information to individual bus routes
Updated COVID Guidelines
Western Local Schools
February 8th, 2022
These guidelines have been developing in accordance with guidance from the Ohio Department of Health and the Pike County General Health District. Western Local Schools will follow the following guidelines in response to COVID-19 infections and exposures. These revised guidelines apply ONLY to students and staff members.
Schools will no longer be responsible for conducting any contact tracing in the school setting, unless specifically requested by the health district in response to a cluster or outbreak. Because of this change, students will not be required to quarantine due to COVID-19 exposures -- regardless of where the exposure occurred.
• Any student or staff member that tests positive for COVID-19 should stay home for 5 days. They can return to normal activities on the 6th day after their symptoms began as long as their symptoms are resolving, they do not have a fever, and they should also wear a mask for 5 additional days.
• Students and student families can voluntarily self-identify as close contacts to COVID-19 cases and choose to follow existing quarantine guidelines. Students may also choose to return to school after exposure by following the Mask to Stay protocols (wearing a mask for 10 days after exposure to the positive individual.)
• Staff will not be required to quarantine due to COVID-19 exposures. However, staff members who are contacts to a positive COVID person need to follow the current masking guidance like students – which is wear a mask for 10 days from exposure.
Since the health district will no longer be contact tracing, it will be up to the parent/guardian to send their child to school with a mask if there was household exposure. Nurses will not have a list of these contacts like they currently do to see if they should be wearing a mask without contact tracing. School nurses will no longer have a list of household exposures, only positive students. If there is a COVID positive adult (or anyone who doesn’t currently attend Western Local Schools) in your house it is the parent’s responsibility to notify the school so we can ensure that the Mask to Stay protocol is being followed.
After driving about 50 miles just now I came to the conclusion that there are too many spotty roads and too many side roads that we will not be able to run. We will be open tomorrow on a two hour delay but we will not be busing kids so obviously every one who does not come is excused. We encourage you to bring your kids if you possibly can but we completely understand that it is not possible for many of you to do so. Teachers will report on a two hour delay so any student who wants to come we will be there at 9:45. We will be having school Wednesday even if we have to offer limited busing.
Western Basketball Fans: Friday Night at home vs. East will be a Triple Header. We will start Boys JV at 5:00pm. We will have a Senior recognition after and then start he Girls game. The Boys Varsity game will follow the Varsity Girls. #tribepride
Western JH Basketball Fans: JH Tournament at Eastern on Thursday at 6:00pm. (1 Team and 1 game) #tribepride
Western Basketball Fans: Make up Girls Basketball at St Joe Monday. Make up Boys Basketball at Clay Tuesday. (JV will be 2 Qtrs). Boys Basketball at home Friday against East and at home Saturday against Symmes Valley. #tribepride
Added information to the previous message about school tomorrow.
Elementary and high school students: if you normally drop off and pick up your child each day, please continue to use the back drop off/pick up areas.
For those students who normally ride the bus and you are bringing your child tomorrow, please drop them off and pick them up at the Jr high gym (bubble) entrance.
We are operating on a two hour delay. Drop off times for morning 9:45-10:00 and pick up times 2:45-3:00.
Thank you.
Auditions for the high school musical will be rescheduled after Tuesday.
School will be open tomorrow on a voluntary basis. This is the first time we have ever done something like this but after the electric issues and water problems etc. etc. I do not want to be closed tomorrow. Any students who want to come to school may do so on a two hour delay. We will not be running buses. Most of our back roads are still in horrible condition. There will be no bussing however parents may bring their kids to school. They just need to be picked up at normal time or earlier if you choose to do so. Any student who needs to get a shower tomorrow just needs to bring their supplies with them. Most staff members will be at school and we will try to make it as normal as possible for students.
Bengals Spirt Week for all students.
ATTN Youth Basketball: The games for tomorrow afternoon are canceled, due to road conditions and so many people in our community effected by the power outages. I will post the end of season tournament schedule once it is finalized this weekend. We will play the tournament next weekend @ Waverly. Thank you! Any questions please let me know.
Per Austin
Youth basketball pictures scheduled for Saturday, Feb 5th are postponed. A re-schedule date will be determined in a few days. Thank you.
After seeing the road myself and consulting with the county engineers office about the conditions of the county roads and the prospect of safe travel tomorrow I am going to postpone homecoming. We are currently another level three an appointment cannot be kept today and I don’t expect it to be much different tomorrow. I tried to wait as long as I could in order to give the homecoming dance a chance for this weekend. I was banking on the fact the weather forecast was going to be wrong as it often is. I do think it was probably not exactly what they said but it certainly is not good. Snow until one day and a low of seven tonight with windchill‘s below zero. That is not conducive for road improvement. Another big issue is the fact that so many of our kids right now don’t have electricity. It