Press release from Buncombe County Schools:
All Buncombe County Schools will operate under a remote learning plan today, Tuesday, December 1, and this will be an optional teacher workday. This is due to overnight precipitation and below-freezing temperatures that have made roadways very slick across our county.
Students will learn independently/asynchronously today. By 10 am, teachers will upload assignments into your child’s respective Learning Management System (LMS). Students may work at their own pace today. Assignments must be completed and turned in within 5 days.
For licensed staff, it will be an optional teacher workday. You may report to your school for work or you may take leave.
Eleven and twelve-month non-licensed employees may work or take leave. Please log your absence in Frontline Absence Management/Aesop by 10 am.
Instructional assistants should not report to work.
Our school buildings will be open for staff to report to work beginning at 9 am so you’ll have more time to travel safely to work. If you have any concerns about work or leave, please work with your principal or supervisor directly.
Finally, if parents are able to travel safely, six-day meal kits will be available for pick up from 11-1:30 at all school locations for Cohort A. Contact your cafeteria manager to place an order for today.
Cohort B students should have picked up their meal kits last week.
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