DECATUR, GA — City Schools of Decatur announced Thursday afternoon that due to the ongoing power outages, in-person learning has been canceled for Friday.
Virtual learning will still be in session for those who are able to access the lessons.
Here’s a letter from the district:
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Dear CSD Community,
As our district is impacted by ongoing power outages, City Schools of Decatur leaders are continuing to monitor this situation.
*All CSD facilities, schools (including Frasier Center and ECLC), and programs (including extracurriculars and CSD-sponsored pods) will remain closed for in-person learning on Friday, October 30. Virtual learning will continue as scheduled if possible.*
Tomorrow, if your student is able to log into a class/session and there is no teacher present, please assume that the instructor is without power or unable to log into their Google Classroom. Teachers will do their best to contact families by email should their power return during the school day. Also, if your student is unable to log into a class/session, we understand the situation. We will mark all students present tomorrow just as we did today.
If you have power/internet access and the teacher does not, please feel free to have your student complete the asynchronous assignments that your teachers have posted in Google Classroom.
We ask staff and families to be flexible and understand that power outage or other circumstances may affect whether students and/or their teachers can engage with virtual learning.
Although all other in-person activities have been canceled for tomorrow, the Decatur High School Varsity Football game will be played as scheduled.
We appreciate your flexibility and understanding.
Strong winds from Tropical Storm Zeta have knocked down dozens of trees around the county, and more trees are expected to fall throughout the day. Many of these trees damage power lines causing temporary outages until generators at pump stations kick on.
Related:
Dozens Of Trees Down In DeKalb, Officials Warn: Hurricane Zeta
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