Junior and senior high school students in the Washington School District will be switching to virtual, at-home synchronous learning Wednesday, October 6th through Friday, October 8th, in an effort to slow the spread of positive Covid cases. District Superintendent Dr. James Konrad says Synchronous learning online will allow the students to log on to each class from the beginning of their regular school day until the end of the day as if they were at school. Konrad says the district plans to reopen at-school learning for the junior-senior high on Monday, October 11th. Konrad says the junior/senior high positive covid cases have spiked to 44 or 7.2% as of Monday, October 4th, with thirteen new cases added since Friday. Konrad says the district will revisit the numbers next week to see if any additional days of virtual learning are needed. District officials say the junior/senior high school closure does not affect Washington Park School students who will still go to their building for in-person classes as normally scheduled. In addition, all extracurricular activities at the junior/senior high school, including athletics, band, and the Prexie Center, a social and tutoring program begun this year, will be cancelled this week effective at 3 p.m. Tuesday. District staff are coordinating breakfast and lunch for those junior and senior high students who wish to take food home at the end of the day on Tuesday for the rest of this week. With the junior/senior high building being closed to students Wednesday through Friday, any WACTC student will need to find his or her own transportation for those 3 days. Parents and junior/senior high students will be notified of changes by phone blasts from the district, as well as updates on Facebook and the school website.