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DHS forces school districts to rethink graduation

High school principals like Sturgeon Bay’s Bob Nickel and Sevastopol’s Adam Baier needed some time to work through their disappointment after the Wisconsin Department of Health Services released new guidelines for hosting graduation ceremonies. In a joint press release Tuesday, the superintendents of Door County’s five districts announced it would rework its plans to follow the department’s guidance, asking them to cancel or postpone all in-person spring and summer graduations in efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19. In its place, the school districts agreed to honor the class of 2020 with some sort of virtual recognition as well as one of the recommended DHS models for the presentation of the diploma. That means no boat parade for Sturgeon Bay High School seniors, but Nickel says he still wants to help those students create some memories.

Sturgeon Bay and Sevastopol will host drive-up ceremonies on May 30th and 31st respectively to be shown on Facebook and aired on the radio stations of DoorCountyDailyNews.com. Southern Door had already planned on doing a virtual ceremony for one piece of its graduation celebration while no firm plans have been announced for Gibraltar or Washington Island. 

 

Read the release from the Door County superintendents by clicking this link

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