Sussex Montessori School Going Online For One Week In Response To Omicron Surge

SEAFORD, De- Sussex Montessori School district is announcing they will be shifting to online classes, Sussex Montessori today announcing from Wednesday until Friday classes are going to online instruction due to high levels of community spread in the area that the school serves.

District officials tell us those high cases threatened both the number of children able to come into school and posed significant staffing shortages for teachers. They say they felt moving online was in the district’s best interest.

“Seeing this rise within our school and community and staff at Sussex Montessori and realizing that would create a shortage of staff and make it a challenge to return in person we felt it was best to pivot and go remotely,” said Community Outreach Specialist Kaneisha Savage.

“We are not just going online for the sake of going online we are shifting to online with every intention of coming back,” said Dr. of Teaching and Learning Peter McClure.

School officials say they understand it can be a difficult transition back to remote learning. That’s why they spent the day handing out Chromebook laptops to parents of students coming by to pick them up.

“This was a decision made with serious consideration of the impacts of it so looking at how it would impact families and staff will the students be able to learn and what did they need to learn so we distributed the Chromebooks to make sure they had accessibility,” Savage said.

Savage says they hope the week will give people a chance to recover and be back at 100 percent on monday. She says any changes or extensions of the online learning period will be announced on the Sussex Montessori Facebook page and via email services.