Students on the first day of class in Sept. 2020 at Hudson Falls High School. Photo: Hudson Falls School District Facebook page Jan 27, 2021 All students in Hudson Falls will have spent the first month of 2021 learning remotely due to the number of faculty in staff in quarantine, including a dozen bus drivers. Students were originally informed, on Jan. 2, that just the first two weeks of the 2021 school year would be remote. “This unfortunate disruption to learning is due to a large number of faculty and staff quarantined because of the latest COVID-19 cases in the school and the community,” said Interim Superintendent Jon Hunter.
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Warren County Health Services Director Ginelle Jones urged people to stop gathering. âWe are still digging out from Thanksgiving,â she said. âWith the community spread of COVID-19 we are seeing, we should not have gatherings with people from outside our household. We are doing all we can to keep up with this, but we need the public to help us.â Whitehall A coronavirus case at Whitehall Elementary School led to everyone learning virtually until Christmas vacation because too many teachers and staff were quarantined, Superintendent Patrick Dee said in a letter to the community. âWe know the importance of keeping our students in school, however, with the number of elementary school staff and students impacted by contact with the positive individual, we simply have to move to a remote learning model to ensure that all students are receiving instruction,â he wrote.