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New focus on uptick of Covid-19 ment. The school’s dean, Rabbi Meyer Weitman, said that the closing surprised school offiAn increase in coronavirus cials. cases in the Five Towns and Far “At 9:30 this evening, we Rockaway has led to temporary received a phone call from the closings of private NYC Department of schools and quesHealth ordering that tions from some resthe school be closed idents about whetheffective immediateer safety protocols ly,” Weitman wrote. are being followed. “We have not been Yeshiva Darchei provided with any Torah and the Torah specific details as Academy for Girls, relates to the reain Far Rockaway, prisons, causes or duravate schools with a tion of the closure.” number of students In a Sept. 25 news from the Five release, the city Towns, were both Health Department temporarily closed explained that it by the New York DR. AARoN issued a CommisCity Department of sioner’s Order to six GlATT Health. Yeshiva Darprivate schools in c h e i To r a h w a s Department of Queens and Brookclosed on Sept. 15 Medicine chairman lyn, including Torah after there were 13 Mount Sinai South Academy, to follow reported cases at the Covid-19 safety proNassau school. It was schedtocols. Commissionuled to reopen on er Dr. Dave A. ChokWednesday, after the Herald shi said that schools that did not went to press. would face fines of up to $1,000 Torah Academy for Girls sent and possible closures. a letter to parents on Sept. 23, “This may be the most precarsaying that the school had been ious position with Covid-19 we closed by the Health DepartContinued on page 11
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MusIC TEACHER RoBERT Presser worked with his socially distanced class at the Franklin Early Childhood Center on Sept. 23.
In-person learning returns Early childhood center welcomes all students By MATTHEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com
While the Hewlett-Woodmere School District was scheduled for a full in-person reopening on Oct. 5, the Franklin Early Childhood Center became the first building in the district to begin inperson instruction on Sept. 23, when pre-K to first-grade students returned. “The district was able to . . . utilize 180 individual test-
ing desks with adjustable legs that are currently not needed at the middle and high school,” Superintendent Dr. Ralph Marino Jr. explained in an email to district parents. “Although the inside of the building may look different, the excitement that filled the hallways and classrooms was familiar and comforting to our youngest learners.” For FECC students, a new school-day routine begins when their parents log on to
an app called Frontline Health Portal and report whether their children have or do not have any Covid-19 symptoms. Parents were also given instructions for dropping their kids off for school. Some parents expressed their satisfaction with the reopening process. Alyssa Mat, who is new to the district this year, noted that the school has been organized in Continued on page 16
ach of the Five Towns falls in the highest case of incidence numbers for Nassau County.