SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) – The Cicero-North Syracuse School District will start cleaning its schools and begin classroom reconfigurations during next week’s spring break recess. The school administration is preparing to bring back students full time for in-person learning beginning on April 12.
CNS school information officer Laurie Cook said the new Center for Disease Control social distancing guidelines will now allow for more students and faculty to be in the same rooms. The rule now allows students to be three feet apart, instead of the original six feet.
“The teachers and our faculty/staff has actually been working together to kind of come up with classroom configurations that are available – that will work for the student population,” Cook said.
As for the plans for returning to school, the district will bring grades K-4 back April 12, for 5 days of in person learning. Grades 5-12 will attend in-person school starting April 19, but will only attend school four days a week, having Wednesday’s classes online.
Although the school has finalized the plans to allow students to return to school, Cook said families still have the option to decide how they want their children to attend class.
“We told families that that’s what the plan was,” Cook said. “They could say, ‘Yes, I want to do that with my child,’ or, ‘No, I’m going to take part in remote learning.” said Cook.
As for COVID-19 guidelines in the school, all remain the same. Students, players, faculty and all others working in the CNS district will be required to wear masks and will be tested regularly.
For more information, check out the North Syracuse School website at https://www.nscsd.org.
