Seventh through twelfth graders at Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont are now attending school every other day.  EBF Superintendent Steve Williamson says the district switched to hybrid learning Tuesday (9/1).

“The reason why was because in contact tracing and a couple cases where students had tested positive, it had affected so many students right off the bat.  Just an initial count on Monday morning (8/31) was 21 students and it probably grew a little bit through the day on Monday.  I’m actually home this week.  I tested positive also.  Because of that and the amount of staff that we had test positive, we thought….let’s take the next step of mitigation measures at the high school and just go to the hybrid model where we have half the students in the building and that really increases our ability to social distance.”

Williamson says EBF students will be expected to use Google Classroom on the days they’re not in the classroom.  He says the EBF School District will look at the issue again in two weeks.  Again, this is only for grades 7 through 12 at Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont.