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The Elk City News
Weekend Edition
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Parents speak out
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The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Wednesday, August 12, 2020
their mental and physical time, but she hopes to start the new requirements,” she
n
School well-being. I trust that they
will do all they can to keep
my babies safe.”
dance class in the future.
Kale wants to remind par-
ents to stay strong in their
said. “She would rather do
online school without wor-
rying about being thirsty
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She also wants people cleaning practices to help because she forgot her water
pick up on my worries and “My kids will be return-
not to forget how important school children stay safe. bottle and can’t drink from a
feel unsafe, and I can’t just ing back to the classrooms
hygiene is for the safety of “I think people should be school fountain.”
allow that to happen. So I try full-time,” Thompson said.
all of us in these uncertain extra vigilant about cleaning Kate Watts is another mom
to keep calm and inform my “They need that interaction.”
times. the children and their school in Elk City who decided to
children as best I can.” She said they are “beyond
as “By now, even the kids supplies,” he said. “That will keep her daughter home this
Kenner has faith in her ready” for school to start
are aware of the importance cut down on the transmis-
n school system, and wants to again. fall, as her daughter will be
of personal hygiene,” she sion of germs.”
do her part to help. “They have missed all doing a home school pro-
said. “As the parents, we While many kids are head-
“I will do everything in their friends, the classroom gram. She previously attend-
need to make sure we keep ing back to in-person school,
my power to help make experiences, favorite teach- ed Elk City Elementary but
reminding them always to some parents have decided
it work,” she said. “If the ers, and most of all, sports,” ZLOOEHVWDUWLQJÀUVWJUDGHDW
wash their hands and be to keep their children home
school called me right now she said. home this year. Kate is wor-
hyper-vigilant in recogniz- during the pandemic.
asking for a rainbow unicorn She is nervous about how ried about her daughter’s
as ing when it does not happen Sara Crelly of Elk City has
with a glow in the dark horn, consistent school will be this at home so we can correct a daughter who went to Elk health and is choosing to be
n well, I’d suit up and go uni- year. it on the spot. If we do this, City Elementary last year safe and not take any chanc-
corn hunting. I’ve always “I’m worried that they will hand washing will be second but will be a part of Epic this es with this virus.
tried to be supportive as pos- start back, and in a month, nature. It should already be year for third grade. Epic is “We wear masks when-
sible with the school faculty everything will get ripped this way, but with COVID an accredited online charter ever we go into public,” she
and staff.” out from underneath them, around, this is our oppor- school. She wants to provide said. “My daughter has had
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o- tial not to pass judgment on down again,” she said. awareness.” stability and comfort in her ing school and even had it
other people’s decisions dur- She wants people to cut Kale Jackson of Merritt learning environment as she twice last year. I’m nervous
ing this time. our schools some slack. has a daughter that will be can. about her getting COVID
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keep in mind this is a stress- is all new to everyone,” she Merritt Elementary. It was put my child in a situation QRWEHLQJDEOHWRÀJKWLW,UH-
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guardians are making deci- and the school systems. But and his wife Connie to send friends, be made to wear a to be rough this year with
sions that they feel are best they’re all working hard to their daughter to school, but mask or be told that she can- COVID.”
for their families, [so] we keep our kids safe and keep because their daughter has not share,” Crelly said. “I She thinks that in-person
don’t need to shame others things as normal as pos- ADHD, they decided it was want her school to feel like
for those decisions.” sible.” school is important to her
too important for her devel- a safe place. I also don’t
This year, Ashley Thomp- Tarra Harrison of Dill City opment to stay home at this daughter, but she doesn’t
e want to deal with the fall-
son of Elk City has four kids has two daughters, one go- time. want to put her child in dan-
out if the school has to go to
s, and will have children at LQJ LQWR ÀIWK JUDGH DQG RQH ger with the unknowns of
“We feel as though with virtual halfway through the
Elk City elementary, middle entering the ninth, in Burns her learning disability, it’s year, and she doesn’t get to this virus.
school and high schools. Flat this fall. Outside of good for her to return to say goodbye to her friends “She’s so young I don’t
The children are involved school, the children are also school because she won’t again.” think it registers with her,”
in several extracurricular both involved in soccer. She fall too far behind,” Kale Her daughter will miss she said. “I can tell she miss-
activities, including cross prefers not to have a nega- said. “However, we are con- school and her friends but es playing with her friends
e country, track, football, tive outlook on the upcom- cerned about the virus being doesn’t like how in-person and misses school, but I’d
wrestling, cheerleading and ing school year. spread.” school looks during this rather not risk her health and
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school is crucial for their “I know our school has our will not be involved in ex- “My daughter wants to go one of the ones who can’t
mental and social develop- children’s safety in mind and tracurricular activities at this back to school, but not with ÀJKW&29,'DVZHOOµ
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