Memphis area elementary school delays start of school year due to COVID-19 cases

[SheltieLover]

https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/education/memphis-area-elementary-school-delays-start-of-school-year-due-to-covid-19-cases/522-1bcc0c09-51ff-47b7-bd2a-5013188267b3

The school made the announcement to parents Sunday afternoon, a day before the school year was set to start.

A Memphis area elementary school has delayed the start of the 2021-2022 school year due to COVID-19 cases. Donelson Elementary School made the announcement to parents Sunday afternoon, a day before the school year was set to start.

The statement read, “DES Families, It is with great displeasure we inform you today that due to a significant number of COVID-19 cases among our staff, we must delay the start of school for Donelson Elementary by one week.

Please know that we explored all options to prevent this delay, but just late this afternoon, we received several more confirmations of COVID-19 among our teaching staff that has stifled our ability to open school. We are simply at a point where opening tomorrow would risk further exposure to students and staff. This is certainly not how we had hoped to begin this school year, but we must take this proactive step to protect our employees and children and prevent a more widespread outbreak.

A bit more at link, but nothing important.

This is a district which never closed to go full virtual last year, even with numerous sizeable covid outbreaks. (Yes, students all have tablets.)

[SoCalDavidS]

1. TFG State

Another state that voted for TFG twice.

[Takket]

2. one week? what's the point lol things aren't getting better in a week.

[SheltieLover]

3. They are in covidiot denial

This is a district tauted as exceptional...

High school principal walks around hallways with no shoes. 🤮

During period masks were mandated, most teachers did not wear them, or wore as chin masks.

They did the new TX protocol of not informing parents or doing contact tracing if students were not within 2-3' of known infected person for 15 min, uninterrupted.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. All the schools in states with severe outbreaks need to do this

Here in New York, we had a combination of in-person and virtual learning set up - and this was before the severe outbreaks we're seeing in Southern states now...

[SheltieLover]

5. This district only delaying by 1 week

Foolish imo.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. That happened here, too. When they had an outbreak, they shut down for about a week

That didn't make much sense to me because just closing for a week didn't mean everything was okay again.

[SheltieLover]

7. I agree!