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The School District of Philadelphia gave Action News a behind-the-scenes look at the new safety measures in place at one elementary school as some students return to in-person learning next week.
It s not the first day of school, but it is the first-day in-school for dozens of hybrid students at Juniata Park Academy. I m going to make some friends from school, said student Adrianne Martinez. You can go to the gym and do gym and that stuff. On a computer, you can t do gym, said 5th grader Zohaib Khan.
School district Superintendent Dr. William Hite and Mayor Jim Kenney welcomed students.
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Desks are spaced apart in Samantha Rutherford s classroom. (Courtesy of Samantha Rutherford)
Jerry Logan, 68, can’t afford not to be serious about COVID-19 safety.
He’s a single father of two school-aged children and takes care of his 93-year-old mother at their North Philadelphia home.
“We can’t afford for her to get sick,” he said.
Weighing the risks, though, he couldn’t justify keeping his children in full-time virtual school.
“They’ve got to make up some of this time. They’ve been out of school almost a whole year.”
So although Logan has lost friends and distant family members to the virus, he opted for his kids to return to in-person school at Kenderton Elementary for two days a week starting today.
A limited number of young Philadelphia students returned to classrooms at 53 of the city's public schools on Monday as they finally make the switch to hybrid learning.
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