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School for young children doing its best to keep COVID-19 out

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School for young children doing its best to keep COVID-19 out
School for young children doing its best to keep COVID-19 out

The owner of the Pathway Montessori School said she and her staff are working hard to keep the coronavirus out of the classroom.

The pathway montessori school says she and her staff are working hard to keep coronavirus out of the classroom.

Wtva's wayne hereford visited the school today and joins us live with what the school is doing to fight the coronavirus.

The pathway montessori school is located inside the all saints episcopal church here in tupelo.

It is not a church school , its a privately-owned business.

However, the school like everywhere else , has dealt with the coronavirus pandemic and is doing so sucessfully.

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(marsha kiste -owner pathway montessori school ) "the children we follow their lead .

We do not have to tell them everything to do .

Its a follow the child school."

Students at the montessori school may not have to wear masks but everyone else here does.

Marsha kiste says they probably would not keep them on all day anyway.

"what we are doing is we are requiring masks for all staff and any parent that comes to the school ,even if they drop at the door they must wear their masks .

All the children have to hand sanitize before they come in the school.

Every hour we wash hands.

Soap and hot water.

We wear gloves and staff stays six feet apart."

She says they try as hard as they can to keep the children six feet apart too.

She says getting them to wear masks, its next to impossible in this situation.

"i guesss the big difference is the masking of the staff.

Actually our students can wear masks if they want to but most of them haven't opted to do that.

Its kind of hard for a young child to keep one on that long."

She says the staff here at montessori clean and sanitize even more than usual now.

Kiste says things are going well so far.

"we have had one staff membver and she quarantiend for 20 days .

So yes, we are good now as far as we know we're good.

We're just taking all of the precautions possible."

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