Cobb also has a CTLS Parent platform where parents can stay up to date on their children’s education. Students can access additional tools under the CTLS Learn system.
Cobb students will not go hungry when they get their lessons at home. Students have the opportunity to receive schoolmates five days a week, while schools are closed to classes in person. Most schools in the neighborhood will schedule Mondays from 4 to 6 p.m. Each meal kit will include five breakfasts and lunch and instructions on how to warm them up at home.
Families wishing to receive meals must complete the online pre-order process, which begins on Tuesday and runs through noon Thursday. That process can be done on the district’s MyPaymentPlus website. Otherwise those who do not have a MyPaymentPlus account must create one before they can receive the meals.
The school district, which said it has about 100 confirmed COVID-19 cases, has a plan to eventually transition back to class. Cobb’s re-approach for students and teachers would be done in three phases, and the system said it would only be implemented if public health data and guidance indicated it was safe to do so.
During phase one, kindergartens would be returned to the classroom through fifth grade students and some students with special needs. Phase two, high school students would return and high school students would return during the third phase. Otherwise would allow to continue with distance learning.
The plan has been criticized by several dozen Cobb parents who have lined up for the neighborhood to offer its own option. Those parents, who are circulating a petition calling on the school board to reintroduce the option for personal classes, have held protests to give their demands.
School board member Charisse Davis said she wants the public to understand that while it may be frustrating for some parents not to have their own classroom option for their students, the district will do what it can to make the distance learning process so smooth. run as much as possible.
“I want to make sure we give each other and our teachers some grace during this time,” she said. “This will take a (higher) level of patience for all of us.”
Board member David Chastain added that the district closely monitors and learns from the experiences of school systems in adjacent systems. All decisions made by the district about going the virtual route were made with the health and safety of students and faculty in mind, Chastain said.
“They have made the best decision they can, given the circumstances and I, as a board member, trust them,” he said.
