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Schools facing ‘a Herculean task’ ahead asking why it isn’t making use of Zoom, the video conferencing platform. jbessen@liherald.com Lawrence Superintendent Dr. With schools closed at least Ann Pedersen defended the deciuntil April 15, as ordered by Gov. sion to use iTutor. “There’s no Andrew Cuomo, school districts live feature on [Google Classhave adopted “distance learn- room], and therefore no way for ing” to maintain their students’ teachers to continue to have instruction. interpersonal relationships with For the two pubtheir students,” she lic school districts in wrote in an the Five Towns, the email.“We strongly n ew s y s t e m h a s believe that in this been a mixed bag of socially distant exissuccesses and failtence, hearing and ures, the latter met seeing their teachers with a keep-at-it and hearing their mindset. classmates will keep In the Lawrence the lear ners conSchool District, nected and engaged. teachers and stuThe new platform dents have had to does not prevent a become acclimated teacher from using to the iTutor plat- JACoB KuPCHIK their Google Classform. Though the Hewlett High junior room if it enhances Jericho-based online their ability to coneducational companect with students.” ny has provided the district with On Monday, iTutor wasn’t academic support for five and a working, according to teachers half years, not everyone in the who sent texts to their students. district has used iTutor. Teach- One from a Lawrence High ers and many students have School teacher read, “Please used, and are comfortable with, notify your parents that iTutor is Google Classroom. having major issues thus makThe Lawrence Teachers Asso- ing it non-operational at this ciation has questioned why the time.” The teacher said that district chose not to use Google Remind and Google Classroom Classroom, and some parents are Continued on page 10
By JEFFREY BESSEN and AIDAN WARSHAVSKY
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A mASK-WEARINg SANItARY District 1 driver, Rickey Rosino, pulled into the Lawrence yard after a collection on Monday.
Cleaning up in messy times
Sanitary District 1 works through pandemic By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
Even in the best of times, the more than 100 Sanitary District 1 workers that collect and process roughly 39,000 tons of solid waste each year have a difficult, dirty job, gathering the refuse and recycling from over 50,000 residents and a variety of businesses and institutions in the villa g es of Cedarhurst, Hewlett Harbor, Hewlett
Neck, Inwood, Lawrence, Woodmere, Woodsburgh and portions of the unincorporated areas of Lynbrook and Green Acres. Collection hasn’t been stopped by the coronavirus pandemic. Every morning at the yard in Lawrence, the workers are given masks and rubber medical gloves before beginning their shifts, District Superintendent George Pappas said. Some employees even walk to their cars before
discarding the personal protective equipment at the end of their shifts. “I couldn’t be prouder of the way the workers at Sanitary District 1 respond in times of a crisis,” Pappas said. “They have proven to be people that put their jobs and their community before themselves.” Pappas noted that district employees collected the debris left by Tropical Storm Continued on page 14
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