Dear Brebeuf Jesuit Community,
This morning, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett and Dr. Virginia Caine of the Marion County Public Health Department announced that high schools in Marion County will need to limit in-person attendance to 50% of capacity and adopt a "hybrid" in-person/online instructional model for the beginning of the school year. At Brebeuf Jesuit, we have been planning for multiple scenarios, and so we are prepared to pivot from our full in-person return plan, to a hybrid model.
All students will be assigned to one of two cohorts and will attend in-person classes two or three days per week, and will join their classes live online from home on the other days. We do not anticipate, at this time, that students’ course selections will need to change.
We are currently in the process of assigning the two student cohorts. These will not be alphabetical; they will be assigned with the goal of balancing class sizes and maximizing the ability to physically distance in classrooms and throughout the building. However, siblings will be placed in the same cohort for family transportation purposes. If you have specific carpool needs for cohorting purposes, we ask that you please inform us of this need by Saturday, August 1 by emailing the information to reopening@brebeuf.org.
Students who have elected a fully online option, will still be able to do so. As a reminder, the deadline for letting us know if you are not comfortable returning to in-person instruction and would like to elect to be fully online, is also this Saturday, August 1. You can still send that request to Shani Simonson at ssimonson@brebeuf.org.
We will have much more specific detail regarding the layout of our hybrid plan for you in the coming week, and are moving forward with our plan to kick-off the academic year on Thursday, August 13.
We will be hosting another live Q&A Zoom Update webinar on Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. to discuss the schedule changes and other reopening updates. Please click here to presubmit a question for the August 5 online Q&A session.
Thank you for your patience and support as we continue to navigate these challenging times. Please know how much we are looking forward to welcoming students back to campus, and want to follow the advice and directives of the medical professionals and leadership of our community to ensure a safe and successful year.
Sincerely,
Greg VanSlambrook
Principal