On the first day of school at Weaverville Elementary, third-grade teacher Saundra Murphy asked the 14 boys and girls in her class if anyone could define the phrase “social distancing.” A hand shot up in the back of the room.
On the playground, Lisa Saulsbery, a first- and second-grade teacher whose blonde bangs hung over a plastic face shield, giddily shouted the names of children she hadn’t seen since March. As they ran toward her, she stopped them from hugging her by stretching her arms wide and patting the air, yelling: “Air hug! Air hug!”
Students Josalyn Spagel and Emma Case, both 15, work together outside their classroom at Trinity High School. Around 64% of the district’s students officially qualify for free or reduced-price meals, but administrators think the percentage is actually higher.This is a place with an independent streak, an old logging community where people bristle at government regulation and fly the green “double-cross” flag of the State of Jefferson,“The bottom line is, what you can’t see will kill you. We all like what’s tangible. We want to see the great white shark coming. That’s going to eat me.
The district gutted both schools, which were also filled with asbestos tile. Students got used to seeing people walking into their old classrooms in hazmat suits while they learned in portable buildings. Driver Carl Tereece inspects his bus before starting his route at Burnt Ranch Elementary in Burnt Ranch.
After schools closed, Treece kept driving this route to deliver meals and homework packets. He worries about the students keeping on their masks — required for all students third grade and older, recommended for those younger — when it gets hot. There is no air conditioning onboard. Darsi Green’s second-grade class practices social distancing while eating lunch on the basketball court at Weaverville Elementary School.
After class, teachers gathered in the gym to discuss what worked and what didn’t. They would need more outdoor lunch tables. And the playground games of basketball and wallball would have to be nixed out of concern so much hand-to-ball contact could risk the spread of infection.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
You mean ordinary and necessary.
What’s sad is the health of the teachers and their families doesn’t seem to matter.
The talk of neck gaiters and shields makes me wonder how closely they’ve followed the research.
It's not risky. Getting into a car and driving to school has more risk for school age kids.
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