School board meeting on 8-2-2021

Masks will return Aug. 4 in the Thomasville City Schools District

“Beginning Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, masks will be required once again inside the buildings of Thomasville City Schools,” said Garth Moss, Thomasville city school superintendent.

He spoke Aug. 2 at a special called meeting of the Thomasville City Board of Education in the Thomasville High School Library.

“Masks will also be required on all school buses. The priority is, and always will be, to keep our students, faculty and staff safe as we possibly can. It is very evident, from all the data, that our students need to be in school with in-person learning, and wearing a mask will allow us to keep the doors open for our students at this time.”
Cases of the Coronavirus with the Delta Variant have increased recently in Alabama.
“We will revisit this mask ordinance or requirement at our Sept. 14 board meeting and see if any adjustment needs to be made at that time.”
“Stay safe,” said Marshall Pritchett, president of the school board. “It is ramping up again. It (the Coronavirus pandemic) is not over. We are still not out of the woods. Be careful and wear your masks.”
The following personnel actions were approved:
(Employment in Positions)
Chiquita Jackson, Child Nutrition Program Assistant at Thomasville High School, nine months, effective Aug. 4, pending background review;
Alfonza McCoy and Ryan Roe, Substitute Bus Drivers, effective for the 2021-2022 school year;
Martha Gramelspacher, English Language Arts Teacher at Thomasville Middle School, nine months, effective Aug. 4, pending emergency certification (Gramelspacher will resign from the school board.);
(Volunteers)
Billy Jack Smith at THS.
Board President Pritchett thanked Gramelspacher for her service on the school board. “We are going to miss you,” he said.
“It has been my honor and my pleasure,” Gramelspacher said. “It is the one regret leaving the board and going to the classroom. …It has been wonderful to work with all of you… also to really feel like I was making a difference for our kids. That’s what it is all about.”