During the most-recent school board meeting, Sweet Springs R-7 Superintendent Lori Price reported 60 percent of district families submitted a response to a survey about the district’s reentry plan.
Like most other school districts in the state, students learned from a distance during the last month and a half of the 2019-20 school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to unofficial minutes from the meeting, Price said 92 percent of the families who responded intend to send their children to school in the fall. Eighty-eight percent of the respondents say they have internet access in their homes. Also, 73 percent of the respondents say they will be able to transport their children to and from school to better allow for social distancing on school buses.
The No. 1 concern from families in the survey responses was the desire of parents wanting as much normalcy as possible for their children.