Weather Update 9/15/20

Hurricane Sally’s track has continued to slow and move to the east. Due to that, all Walton County schools, including extracurricular activities, will remain closed through tomorrow, Wednesday September 16th.  Closures include both students and employees.  Based on information from Emergency Management, tropical storm winds and heavy rain will continue to impact Walton County today and Wednesday with potential of historic levels of flooding. 

Freeport High School is opening as a shelter today at 5:00 p.m.  Please visit Walton County Emergency Management for more information.  We will continue to monitor the weather with our local experts.  Stay safe, and continue to check our district and schools’ websites and social media platforms for more information. 

Re-opening Update for Parents 8/21/20

We are excited to wrap up our first week of school!  We want to thank everyone for being so supportive of not just the start to the 2020-2021 school year, but to all the changes that have taken place due to COVID-19.  Everyone has been so gracious and positive this week.  Students are working hard, faculty and staff have been innovative and flexible, and our parents have been awesome partners on this new journey.  We are glad to be back!

Because we want to continue the success of our first week, we would like all parents of our brick and mortar students to continue to reiterate the importance of social distancing and the wearing of masks, when social distancing is not feasible, with their children.  We found that as the week progressed, many students started to feel comfortable and more at ease in their surroundings and that’s encouraging, but we do want to continue to remind students that social distancing and masks are best practice until the pandemic is over.  Students - keep up the good work!

Thanks to all of our distance learning and virtual students and families as well.  Thank you for being a great team player this week as we have collaborated with technology and other new procedures.  Please remember we have a page devoted to our Innovative Learning Digital Academy, as well as Walton Virtual School, on our website. 

As the weeks continue, please know we will continue to make the right adjustments and best decisions for our students.  We want to continue to build upon our success, and we want our re-opening to be a positive experience for our community! 

Do you have questions for Mr. Drake? Join him on a Live Q&A session tonight, 8/6 from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Below is the link for the Q&A session. You may want to download Microsoft Teams or use the Web.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_M2NmNGU1MDItMTNkNy00MzdkLWFlZjYtZjRkYzFjNWZlNTVi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22ba09253a-2e0b-4da2-9fa6-06404392ce18%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%229da47a7a-551c-4bc8-ae05-94d95c4dc255%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d