Huntsville City Schools complete full week of in-person learning

More than 17,000 students and staff are back

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New information - today marked the end of the first full week of in-person learning at huntsville city schools.

And while the distict says 38 new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed since monday, it doesn't seem to be dampering spriits.

Waay 31's grace campbell checked in today with a parent to find out how everything went a spokesperson from the district and the parent i spoke with are both very happy with how the week has gone and all the safety procedures implemented.

Joseph pleva told me one of the positive things he's experienced as a parent is a reduction in notifications about coronavirus infections.

Pkg: joseph pleva: "i've actually noticed this week the number of emails has gone down.

You'd thought it would have gone up.

I suppose the plan that they have in place seems like it's working the way that one would hope it would."

Joseph pleva has four children in the huntsville city school district.

3 go to huntsville high school and one goes hampton cove elementary.

They are adjusting to being back in the school five days a week.

Pleva said the only thing his family is unsure about is the plastic desk shields the high schoolers have to carry from class to class.

"questioning whether it's something that actually will help keep them safe or is something that just makes them feel like they're safer."

The districts spokesperson, craig williams, says the district provided every school the desk shields and it was then up to each school whether they mounted them to each desk or had students bring them around.

Williams says the district has created a recipe for success with its increased safety procedures like the desk shields, intensive cleaning protocols and smaller class sizes.

We've implemented a myriad of risk mitigation procedures so it's not necessarily about any one of those in particular, but it's about how they all come together and work together in order to ultimately create a safe and healthy learning environment, and that's exactly what we've done look live: williams wants to remind parents that keeping schools safe and healthy starts by keeping sick students home.

In huntsville, grace campbell, waay 31 news.

The district says it's happy to have welcomed more than 17 thousand students and staff back into