acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com SARANAC LAKE A proposal to restructure classes in the Saranac Lake Central School District would allow students in grades 7 through 12 to return to in-person instruction four days a week this spring, and would consolidate younger grades into fewer classrooms with closer seating arrangements. Earlier this month, New York issued new COVID-19 guidance for schools allowing students to sit masked at desks three feet apart, a reduction from the previous guidance of six feet. The social distancing requirements have played a role in SLCSD’s decision-making up until this point, as Superintendent Diane Fox has said it’s pushed some classes into two classrooms, taking up more space in school buildings.
acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com Dogs Skye, left, and Yogi get excited as Saranac Lake Central School District Superintendent Diane Fox, front right, gives gifts to high school seniors Leena Keal, left, and Lily Ervin Wednesday morning on Forest Hill Avenue.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) Saranac Lake High School Principal Josh Dann hands senior Leena Keal a gift bag as fellow senior Lily Ervin and their family members look on Wednesday morning on Forest Hill Avenue.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) From left, Saranac Lake High School seniors Leena Keal and Lily Ervin were given posters of their faces and gifts for their parents by district Superintendent Diane Fox and High School Principal Josh Dann on Wednesday morning.
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Students in grades 7 through 12 arrive at Saranac Lake High School for the first day of classes Sept. 8, 2020.
(Enterprise photo â Amy Scattergood) SARANAC LAKE Saranac Lake students in grades 7 through 12 are going remote Thursday and Friday, Superintendent Diane Fox said in a call to parents at around 4:15 p.m. Wednesday. Fox said a member of the middle-high school community had tested positive for COVID-19 but did not specify whether it was a student, teacher or other staff member. These students are scheduled to will return to in-person instruction Tuesday, after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Petrova and Bloomingdale elementary schools are continuing their hybrid in-person learning. So are BOCES classes through the Adirondack Education Center in Saranac Lake, including the New Visions health career program.
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Students in kindergarten through grade 3 arrive at Petrova Elementary School in Saranac Lake for the first day of class on Sept. 8.
(Enterprise photo â Amy Scattergood)
SARANAC LAKE Kindergarteners through sixth-graders in the Petrova building of the Saranac Lake Central School District will go back to fully remote learning starting Monday, after a YMCA child-care worker tested positive for COVID-19.
District Superintendent Diane Fox announced the news to parents in a robocall Saturday. She said the YMCA employee had last worked at Petrova Elementary School on Thursday.
“Franklin County Public Health will conduct contact tracing and issue quarantine orders as needed,” she said.