Board votes against on-site instruction, district announces 2020 graduation plan

The Whitehall School Board voted Friday afternoon to not reconvene onsite instruction for the last 20 days for the 2019- 2020 school year from May 7 to June 4.

Prior to the vote, Superintendent Hannah Nieskens shared the results of a survey sent to parents asking for their input on if school should continue. Nieskens reported they had 211 responses with 64.5 percent saying they would not send their child back to school and 35.5 in favor of returning to school.

In a release from the district, Nieskens said the most impactful contributing factor to the vote was the input of the parents via the s...