Dear Families and Colleagues,
This Westborough Public Schools Reopening FAQ document will serve as our ongoing update to protocols. The protocols were developed collaboratively with the Westborough Board of Health and will be refined as necessary as the year moves forward. Please be sure to provide us with your comments and/or questions pertaining to the protocols.
I want to acknowledge and thank the community for our exceptionally high vaccination rate (see table below) and the positive choices that have maintained our community health. At the close of the school year, Westborough faculty and staff had similarly high percentages of vaccination. As we move into the start of the school year we will be obtaining new data on all faculty.
While we are undoubtedly in a much better place, complications stemming from the pandemic will continue into the fall and there will be a range of feelings about our decisions and guidance for how to best provide appropriate safety and a high quality learning and work environment. The masks optional policy at this summer’s Extended Year Program and the Community Education Program worked well. During this time, two cases of COVID were reported and we had no internal spread of cases. While this is very good news, we remain aware of the concerns regarding the Delta variant.