GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — The Green Bay School Board will be meeting tomorrow to discuss if and when to bring students back into the classroom after months of virtual learning.
Brook Andrews is one of the parents pushing for a return to class, and she has some mixed feelings about the meeting.
“Yay that they’re finally coming to the realization that this needs to happen, and nay to their proposal,” she told WTAQ.
She argues that the board’s proposal, a two-day-a-week return schedule starting mid-February, doesn’t go far enough.
“We don’t want to sound ungrateful,” Andrews said. “We just don’t feel that they’re getting there quickly enough.”
Andrews says her group would like to see the option for full, five-day-a-week in person class while maintaining the virtual option, arguing that other districts, including several in Brown County, have done it successfully.
“We just don’t understand how they argue that Green Bay is ‘too big’ to go back,” Andrews said. “We’ve got district like New York and Chicago going back to class, but that’s what they keep arguing.”
An opposition effort by other parents and some Green Bay Area Public School District staff members to keep classes virtual has also emerged.
“I don’t really know what they’re fighting for, because they have it, and they don’t have to give it up,” said Andrews. “I don’t understand the constant battle between them and us.”
Virtual classes, Andrews argues, should remain an option.
“Giving people the option is key here,” she said Monday. “If you don’t feel safe, stay home, but for those of us that want to test that risk for ourselves…and put our kids back in school, we believe we should have that option.”
The board meeting starts virtually at 5:00pm Tuesday.
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