KINDE — North Huron Schools Superintendent Martin Prout has no shortage of work to do.

Right now, he is working with North Huron staff to get his school ready for the fall semester. He’s confident they’ll be ready to welcome students back to class after Labor Day, when North Huron will begin the academic year.

Prout’s students, along with the rest of Michigan’s school children, have not set foot in a classroom since the middle of March, when Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered schools closed as the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the state.

North Huron, along with every other school district in Huron County, had originally set Monday, Aug. 17, as the first day school, but Prout said there is so much work to be done they thought it was best to move the start date to early September.

On the academic side, Prout said North Huron teachers have been working to prepare for the possibility of a return to distance learning and are using what they learned in the spring to improve on educational methods and, more importantly, take much of the burden off mom and dad.

This story was published in the Huron Daily Tribune on July 15, 2020 by Mark Birdsall