The experience in our state since school reopening began indicates that transmission has been a rare event inside of school buildings, even with communities with elevated transmission rates, likely due to the high level of planning and compliance with mitigation strategies designed to prevent transmission between individuals. The same level of planning and compliance is not necessarily in place in other settings outside of school buildings.
CT Dept of HealthJones said that with Halloween approaching, people need to be very mindful.
“We know that we’re going to have social activity, but encourage our children to wear masks and have parents model that for children,” she said.
Jones said while reinforcing mitigation strategies was important because they are working, the district is also working to get more activities for students to keep school spirit alive across.
She said the GHS executive committee had some great ideas including a drive-by pumpkin carving event.
Also, she said the PTA is considering ways to provide curriculum enrichment, given that they can’t bring guests into the schools and children can’t go on museum visits.
Jones said there had been a lot of positive feedback on the remote K-5 school, and that this week the K-5 remote enrollment was down to 535 students and she anticipates that dropping to 517 next week.