"The culture in each community across Montana is a little different, the needs and desires of their school boards and communities are unique to each town, so there was quite a bit of debate back and forth about what the right thing to do was. "It’s a conversation that the AA superintendents had for probably two or three weeks prior to the letter, and we debated back and forth, obviously," Great Falls Public Schools superintendent Tom Moore told MTN. Class AA superintendents feared similar quarantines and cancellations might disrupt the beginning of the winter sports season. Quarantines were already impacting Class AA winter sports programs in December, with Missoula Sentinel's boys basketball team taking a pause from Dec.
2, with plans to assess the situation in the coming days.
MHSA executive director Mark Beckman confirmed the request of the Class AA superintendents but maintained the winter sports seasons would go on as planned, beginning Saturday, Jan.
"While we know that physical activity is important for all of us, the quarantining process when a positive case occurs on a sports team can create a significant disruption to in-person learning." "The rationale for this request was the rapid increase of COVID-19 cases in our communities and the difficulty of maintaining physical distancing in our winter sports," read Watson's email. When Missoula County Public Schools superintendent Rob Watson released an email from the Class AA superintendents requesting the Montana High School Association consider delaying the start of competition for winter sports, it was met with mixed reaction.
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