Students and parents quickly move to get vaccinated ahead of return to school classroom
The countdown begins as Palm Springs Unified School District prepares to bring elementary students back into the classroom on April 12th.
News Channel 3 s Dani Romero with a look at how families are preparing.
Its less than week to go before PSUSD opens their elementary schools for in-person learning.
“We are ready, said Eric Antuna, Principal of Agua Caliente Elementary School. We’re excited its been a year, well over a year. Its time for us to come back, super excited to have our kids back with us.”
Palm Springs Unified School District says Kindergarten registration for the 2021-22 school year is down.
“Typically this is the time of year when we have our new kindergarten enrollment. Parents know school’s going to be starting in the fall. They need to enroll their students. But we haven’t seen the number of kindergarten enrollments that we typically see in the spring, said Anne Kalisek, Executive Director of Student Support Services, PSUSD. I think that our parents are not 100% sure that our schools are open, she said.
The district has been reassuring parents that their kids can safely return to campus. We are going to do everything we can to ensure our students are safe here. With sanitizing, masks, the social distancing, said Eric Antuna, Agua Caliente Elementary.
While Palm Springs Unified School District students and teachers are nearing the end of their two-week spring break, district administrators are putting the finishing touches on preparing to welcome some students back to their classrooms two days a week beginning April 12 through the remainder of the school year.
As COVID-19 case and positivity rates continue to decrease and more residents are receiving their vaccinations, the district is moving forward in its transition to in-person instruction for pre-school through second grade students the week of April 12, followed by third through sixth graders on April 19. Seventh and eighth graders and seniors will begin their hybrid instructional programs April 26, sophomores and juniors on May 3 and freshmen on May 10. Parents at all grade levels were given the option of having their children remain in distance learning through the end of the 2021-22 school year in June.
Teachers quickly move to get vaccinated ahead of return to school classroom Palm Springs Unified School District is gearing up to bring students back into the classrooms.
The district s plan is to have students pre-K to second grade return to in-person learning beginning April 12th.
Class sizes will be reduced to at least half their usual size, the district set a maximum capacity of 14 students and staff in a classroom in order to ensure social distancing can be maintained.
Students in all grade levels K-12 are required to wear face coverings at all times while in the classroom, on campus, on the school bus, or any school event, unless there is a written medical exemption.