According to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, more than 7,000 school staff and at least 40,000 students tested positive for COVID-19 between Jan. 6 and Jan. 13:
Potter Road Elementary School principal Larry Wolpe talks to a class he recently taught as a substitute teacher.
It was a last minute decision, but necessary. There was no one else who could step in on a recent Tuesday afternoon while the teacher left to get a COVID test. Luckily, the students in this Framingham classroom were excited about the arrangement. Most of them cheered when Wolpe broke the news.Wolpe, who used to be a teacher, had some muscle memory for how to manage a class.
"It’s oddly kind of dystopian in the building," says Samantha Laney, a fifth grade teacher at the Holmes Innovation School in Boston."The amount of people that are there is not a number that I would ever have predicted or imagined would even be possible to keep a school open with." "So if I have half of my students Monday through Wednesday, and then a new set of students comes in and other ones get sick, I now have to re-teach what we learned," she explained.
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