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GEORGE SCHOOL
OPENING PLAN AT A GLANCE
As we reopen George School, our main goals will be to maintain the bonds of our community and our commitment to academics in the safest way possible, while remaining flexible in the face of unpredictable circumstances. It is important to the development of adolescents that they spend time with their peers and bringing students back to campus is therefore a priority.
It will also require our students, faculty, and staff to be adaptive and resilient in our work this coming year. We need a plan to reopen school that allows us to pivot when unforeseeable changes arise in order to ensure that we can move forward as a community in a safe and responsible fashion. T H E H I G H LI G H T S O F T H E P L A N TO R E O P E N A R E A S F O LLOW S :
George School needs to continue to offer the best academic experience we can for students who are studying with us from around the country and around the world. We also will continue to build our Friends community through regular meetings for worship, assemblies, and service, while taking the necessary precautions. Despite this commitment to continuing to learn and grow together on campus, we will need to acknowledge that the school’s social and academic life will differ in significant ways from what it has been in the past. While there are no absolute guarantees of safety from COVID-19, we will take the steps we can to limit its spread, and this will entail significant changes in how we interact.
• W e will adopt a red-orange-yellow-green colorcoded system for running the school. The phase we are in will be determined by factors including: the infection rate in the region around George School; infections on campus or among community members; the capacity of the Student Health and Wellness Center to isolate and monitor students who have tested positive for COVID-19 or who have been exposed to it; guidance from the CDC, and state and local health officials. • A s of August 5, and under present conditions, George School plans to open in the yellow phase. Like all schools we will continue to evaluate conditions around the school and on campus to ensure
