Northeastern School District closes two schools Wednesday due to COVID-19
York Dispatch
Northeastern School District closed two of its schools for the rest of the week after each building recorded four COVID-19 cases within 14 days.
Spring Forge Intermediate and Mount Wolf Elementary will be closed Wednesday through Friday, with students completing online assignments until they return to the classroom Monday.
According to the district s online COVID-19 dashboard, Northeastern s nine buildings have recorded a total of 21 cases in the last 14 days. Eight of those cases are linked to Orendorf Elementary, which closed last week and reopened Monday.
Two schools with the York City and West Shore school districts closed Tuesday for the rest of the week, adding to a growing trend of school closures across York County due to COVID-19. Just last week, 13 local schools temporarily closed, not including a handful of schools that limited their COVID-19 closures to the weekend.
York City, West Shore school districts close schools for the week due to COVID-19
York Dispatch
York City and West Shore school districts each closed one school for the rest of this week after recording a rise in COVID-19 cases linked to their buildings.
Hannah Penn K-8 in the York City School District closed Tuesday after recording eight COVID-19 cases between April 5 and Monday, according to the district s online dashboard. Red Mill Elementary in the West Shore School District also closed Tuesday, after recording seven cases in the last 14 days, according to its online dashboard. Both schools are scheduled to reopen Monday.
Police: West York HS student made online school threats as joke
York Dispatch
A 17-year-old West York Area High School student is being charged with making terroristic threats for posting threats online about the high school as well as West York Area Middle School, police said.
At about 10:15 a.m. April 1, the West Manchester Township Police s school resource officer assigned the two schools learned of a social-media post threatening an act of violence, according to township police.
The threat did not specify which school-district building was the target of the threat, police said.
Students at both the high school and middle school were released for the day shortly after the threatening post was reported, according to police.
Closer Look: A year into COVID pandemic, York County teachers face exhaustion
York Dispatch
Editor s Note: This is part of a regular series at The York Dispatch. Throughout the year, Dispatch staffers will delve into a new topic that we believe deserves a Closer Look.
Experienced educators were left feeling like first-year teachers again with the overwhelming responsibilities they took on while teaching through an unprecedented pandemic.
As they near the final months of the school year, several York County teachers described feeling exhausted at the end of each day. Ellen Connelly, who works for the Dallastown Area School District, said in her 29 years of teaching she has never experienced the level of professional exhaustion she feels this year.