Over the past month, our area schools have had to redesign their spaces and curricula to cope with Covid-19 and submit their plans to the Minnesota Department of Education.

Thanks to the size of the school, Cromwell-Wright’s leadership team, teachers and staff have opted for a fairly unique hybrid learning model, which allows all students to return to school on Sept. 8 but follows the state guidelines for a hybrid model (which has stricter social distancing requirements). The board adopted the model at its Aug. 19 school board meeting with no dissenting votes.

Of course, parents may opt f...