The Scarsdale Public School District in Westchester decided to cancel classes until March 18 upon learning Sunday that a middle school teacher tested positive for coronavirus.
The impacted faculty member is exhibiting mild illness, and the District’s response is designed to demonstrate vigilance and recognition of individuals who may be immuno-compromised, the district wrote in a message posted to their website.
During the cancellation, the district will contact families who may have come into contact with the infected teacher, disinfect their buildings, and develop a system to enable “e-learning” beginning March 16, the district said.
Meanwhile, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the elite private all-girls Brearley School also canceled classes this week because a student’s parent is being tested for the virus, according to a Sunday email sent to parents from the school’s head, Jane Foley Fried.
The Brearley School is at least the third posh Manhattan prep school to close from the coronavirus since last week.
The Brearley parent, who was exposed to the coronavirus, was tested Sunday.
“Neither the parent nor members of the family have any symptoms of illness since the exposure,” an email from the school said.
Classes at the Brearley School are expected to resume after Spring Break on March 30.
The school said they plan to use the additional week off before the planned break to test the functionality of their virtual classrooms.
Columbia University is canceling two days of classes this week because a person at the school is under quarantine from coronavirus exposure, action is intended to prevent from spreading, the university’s president announced in a Sunday email.
I am writing this evening to notify everyone that, because a member of our community has been quarantined as a result of exposure to the Coronavirus (COVID-19), we have decided to suspend classes on Monday and Tuesday, Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger, wrote in an email.
Bollinger noted that the person under quarantine has not yet diagnosed with the deadly virus. They did not say if it was a student or staff member. From Wednesday until the start of Spring Break on Friday, classes will be taught remotely, Bollinger said.
Meanwhile, Hofstra University on Long Island canceled this week’s classes when a student reported flu-like symptoms Sunday after attending a conference with a person who later tested positive for coronavirus.
The student is being tested and kept in isolation, the university announced in a statement. Six other people who came in close contact with the student have been asked to self-quarantine.
“We want to emphasize that this action is a precaution taken to provide peace of mind to students, faculty, staff and families,” the school said.
The university has no confirmed coronavirus cases.
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