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Greenville City Schools
School Climate in the Pandemic
By: Stan Hughes, High School Principal
The climate of our school building affects all aspects of educating our
students. A positive and healthy climate increases morale for students
and staff, creates a better learning atmosphere, and increases
community interactions with the school buildings. Traditionally we can
see the characteristics of a good climate from our students in things
like participation in pep rallies, clubs, grades, and community
involvement with attendance at school events. In this pandemic year our
traditional ways of measuring how our students and community are
involved in our schools have taken on a non-traditional look.
Imagine being trained to learn and teach in front of an audience your
entire life and in a matter of a few days all of that changing. We used
to rely on discussion, demonstration, teamwork and practice as the
basic principles of teaching and learning. We now must include things
like logging-in, email, Zoom, wearing masks, attaching homework, all
while relying on our technology to work. When outside factors like loss
of income, product shortages, quarantines and illness are taken into
consideration, students, staff members, and parents are struggling to
keep up with our traditional expectations.
Our staff and students are doing their best to provide and produce
traditional high school experiences like sporting events, concerts, as
well as remote learning and face-to-face learning while also promoting
safe and healthy behaviors to lessen the risk of transmitting COVID-19.
We appreciate all of the extra precautions that students, staff, and
community members have done so that we can have these events and see
students every day in our schools.
Greenville High School would like to thank all of the people who have
helped us plan, administer, and back our school’s educational needs and
extracurriculars. We hope that with continued support we will be able
to offer more traditional experiences for our students and community.
The climate and atmosphere of our schools and our community will
continue to improve as we work together to provide the best academics
and extracurriculars while doing our best to keep all of us safe and
healthy.
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