A letter to the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees

Shutdown of schools

I am disappointed in the decisions to close schools. In rural Montana, our students face varying degrees of connectivity and lack of appropriate device issues. This means that not every student has a device or internet connectivity and yet our schools are sending students to remote learning for semesters, quarters, or weeks at a time. The achievement gap is already huge, it is getting bigger by the day, and now, we are going to make it insurmountable by going remote without every child having a device or connectivity.

Secondly, teachers are spending countless hours recordin...