New Surry classroom is kid-approved
SURRY Meet the new pandemic classroom, a yurt at the Surry Elementary School.
Yurts are wholeheartedly kid-approved.
“It’s maybe the best idea I ever had,” said Principal Fred Cole. “It’s entirely in response to the COVID-19 physical distancing requirements we have in the schools. We used COVID relief fund money to purchase it.”
“I confess I only had the idea for a yurt because I worked at the Bay School,” Cole said. “I was wondering how we could get some classroom space quickly. It’s impossible to get a good modular, but a yurt might go up quick. We were lucky to get it. To get a yurt right now, they’re talking months out. This company just had a cancellation.”