Henderson Schools Start Hybrid Model in Red Zone

Henderson Schools Start Hybrid Model in Red Zone

Students in henderson county schools are now back in the classroom---- at least part of the week.... but as the county sees more positive cases-- that's negatively impacting students who want to be back in class 44news reporter marisa patwa reports from henderson county tonight henderson county being designated as a red zone over the weekend -- which means there have been one hundred new cases of covid-19 per a population of one hundred thousand -- didn't stop hundreds of kids from returning to the classroom on monday for the first time this school year as they start their hybrid model "using the information and guidance that we do have from the state.

And decisions are determined on thursday evenings.

And so as of last thursday, we were in the orange model and so we did decide to continue on with our hybrid model of instruction."

And for students who still feel unsafe returning to the classroom or for those who have rural internet access the school district is providing mobile hot spots in the form of school buses "even now, as we're running our buses on the hybrid days.

They'll pick up our students.

They're only picking up about half.

So we'll have plenty of social distancing between these students on the buses.

And on the days we do nti on wednesdays, these buses will be back up at those spots in our community.

Owning the outreach and making sure our students have access to internet.

As for parents still concerned about safety -- school officials say they are taking cdc guidelines very seriously "for lunch, we have plexiglass up and children are six-feet apart.

We do temp checks in the morning.

You name it, we do it-- we do everything possible."

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