THE Covid-19 pandemic taught the CNMI training neighborhood rather a lot about security and expertise,  Board of Education member Andrew Orsini stated.

During the pandemic, Orsini stated he made positive that each scholar was given web entry and an iPad or laptop computer for on-line studying.

 He stated the BOE and the Public School System additionally ensured that every one faculties had plexiglass of their school rooms and face masks for all college students, in addition to digital submission of studying supplies. Laptops, iPads and mifi gadgets had been offered to college students who had no web entry.

“We also provided hand sanitizers and thermometers for all classrooms,” Orsini stated.

“Everybody talks about the pandemic so casually now because we’ve overcome and survived it. But, at the time, we were only thinking about the safety of every child and every family,” he added.

Orsini stated the pandemic reworked the PSS particularly by way of sanitation.

“It is our constitutional mandate for education to continue, no matter what, so I want to thank all the teachers, bus drivers, maintenance and support staff who built a safe and loving place for students to return to after the pandemic,” he added.

 “The pandemic really shook our system — for better or worse. It taught us that safety is the number one priority, that technology has to be incorporated for preparing students for the future, and, most importantly, it taught us that the relationships students develop in the classroom help them learn more because academics are not all that matters but also a child’s social and emotional health,” stated Orsini who’s searching for a second time period as a BOE member.