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Our COVID-19 Mitigation Team has carefully reviewed these guidelines and has made adjustments to our current quarantine practices for staff and students and isolation practices for Hopkins staff.
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With the Covid-10 Omicron surge continuing to be challenging on many levels, we want to provide you with some brief updates about where we are with continuing to operate in-person school in Hopkins
Weekly Connections Newsletter December 7, 2021
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Omicron is the dominant COVID-19 variant in the United States. While we have faced several variants throughout this pandemic, Omicron is unique and will present challenges for us through this month and perhaps beyond.
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Starting next school year (2022-23) Hopkins will adjust school start times such that elementary schools start earlier and secondary schools start later. Starting in the 2023-24 school year, we will transition 6th-graders to middle school, and 9th graders to our high school.