“We welcome and appreciate the perspective of these parents, as well as every parent and member of our community,” a spokesperson for the Upper East Side school said Monday in a statement.
Horace Mann
Efforts to resume in-school learning at Dalton may be too late as colder weather arrives. On Sunday, New York reported its sixth-consecutive day of infections of 1,000 and more, and Mayor Bill de Blasio said he’ll close schools in Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods where the virus is surging for two weeks starting Wednesday.
Horace Mann, a private school in the Bronx that opened in person in early September, had its first employee test positive for Covid over the weekend, Head of School Thomas Kelly said in an email. School will be closed Monday and reopen Tuesday, with one student and two other teachers in quarantine.
The employee caught the virus at a family event off campus, Kelly said in an email. After the Thanksgiving recess, the school plans on moving to remote learning through the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Kelly said.
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