Please continue to monitor your children for any symptoms of COVID, Hanks wrote. We also ask families to remind students to wash their hands frequently, sanitize often and keep their masks on properly. There are many events at the end of the school year that we are looking forward to holding and want to try our best to maintain our healthy environment.
Those events include an-person prom and traditional graduation ceremony for seniors, the Cumberland Life Festival for eighth-graders and modified G-A School District Special Olympics. It has truly been a community-wide effort this year and we are so grateful for the support of our families, Hanks said. We believe that our continued efforts and diligence will permit us to close out the year successfully. We can and should all be proud of our GA community!
Echo Pilot
The doors to the Greencastle-Antrim High School auditorium are being cracked open a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.
The auditorium had been basically off-limits, but it is being opened on a limited basis to district students, families and staff based on the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Dr. Lura Hanks, superintendent, said at the April 1 school board meeting.
Hanks also talked about outdoor activities in a brief spring health and safety update.
In the auditorium
The district wants to provide band, music and theater students the same opportunities that student-athletes have had as many sports resumed during the pandemic.
The board voted 7-2 in favor of Hanks recommendation.
Board member Tracy Baer, who voted no along with Lindsey Mowen, said she thinks the competency-based calendar is moving in a good direction, but she s not sure the kids, parents, community and teaching staff are ready for it year.
After a year of COVID-19, she feels they just want to go back to normal and are tired of change.
Virtual Wednesdays are one change that was in the cross-hairs of many parents who responded to a survey about how the district is doing after its latest drop anchor day in February.
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The Greencastle-Antrim School District is continuing to navigate rapid changes in the COVID-19 picture.
In a video message to families on Friday, Dr. Lura Hanks, superintendent, announced middle school students will be returning to the classroom for full days four days a week beginning April 8.
In two emails Monday one in the morning and one in the afternoon she alerted families to a surge in positive COVID-19 cases and urged continued vigilance.
Testing positive
Several positive cases were reported over the weekend, with more reported on Monday, Hanks wrote. By the end of the day Monday, there were five positive high school students, three staff members, two primary school students and one elementary school student.