While the entirety of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a fluid situation — month-to-month, week-to-week, hour-to-hour — the Trigg County Schools do not have a plan to shift into NTI learning at this time.
Per District Superintendent Bill Thorpe, and as of Tuesday morning, daily meetings with health professionals and district principals have been reviewing any and all options. And while the campus is currently down “several staff members” and an NTI switch was “discussed,” nothing has been decided in the immediacy.
According to the school’s daily-updated COVID-19 dashboard, four high school staff members, one middle school staff member, one intermediate school staff member, six primary school staff members and two district employees are dealing with active cases of the coronavirus.
More than 30 students across the district are dealing with active cases, as well, including five in the high school, eight each in the middle, intermediate and primary schools, and two in the Trigg Tots program.
Trigg’s school district has more than 80 kids quarantined surrounding these active cases, involving 13 high school students, 14 middle school students, 20 intermediate students, 26 primary students and 10 Trigg Tots. Six staff members — one for the high school, four for the intermediate school and one for the primary school — are also currently in quarantine.
Prior to the New Year, Trigg County school officials moved to a “tiered” masking protocol for its district — making it mandatory for students and staff to mask as long as the county remained in the red. This protocol is monitored and updated weekly.
All 120 counties are currently in red incidence rates, with Trigg County observing 59.5 cases per 100,000 people, and a testing positivity rate of 34.06%.
