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Swampscott School Committee mulls social-distance change
Leigh Blander / Correspondent
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The School Committee is discussing possibly changing the distancing rule in Swampscott schools from six feet to three feet – to bring more students back into classrooms.
“This is such a year of loss,” said School Committee Chair Amy O’Connor at a Feb. 10 public meeting. “The completely dulled experience that everyone’s having; we did not imagine this was going to be a year in the making. Everyone’s exasperated and parents of the younger kids are really burnt out.”
School Committee member Ted Delano added, “I had a conversation with a parent today and they were describing their daughter’s academic progress as dying on the vine and that to me is a lot.”