Our students’ virtual orientation concludes tomorrow, and opening day is quickly approaching. However, three essential tasks must be completed before departure from home. For safety purposes, teams of students will repopulate campus over four days. Only four...
Today, we launched phase two of our opening, initiating a week-long virtual orientation for students. These sessions run from 1:20 to 4:05 every afternoon, Monday through Friday. Topics are wide-ranging. For instance, they include student and faculty introductions,...
I emailed all of our parents soon after Franklin Academy’s Board of Trustees greenlighted the return of teachers and students to campus for the start of the 2020-21 school year. I asked the question: Will your student be “rooming or zooming?” Here...
We are moving methodically through the plan to reopen our campus this month. Of course, the primary gating condition is Connecticut’s success in slowing the spread of COVID-19. The State’s positive test rate has consistently been below 1% throughout the...
I want to remind all new and returning Franklin Academy families that we recommend a fourteen-day quarantine by your student before returning to campus this September. The school also requires that each student and each accompanying parent arrive on move-in day with a...
