Hawthorne Elementary suspends in-person learning due to absence of staff

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TULSA, Okla. — Some Tulsa Public School simple students volition log onto their Chromebooks Wednesday for distanced learning. Staff astatine Hawthorne Elementary School enactment retired a connection Tuesday saying they are suspending in-person learning for the day.

Based connected the announcement; the territory does not explicitly accidental if the closure is COVID related, alternatively it says it's owed to an lack of staff.

It besides says the schoolhouse whitethorn not beryllium unfastened Thursday and that the schoolhouse volition update parents Wednesday this afternoon. This comes arsenic respective different Green Country schools person already had to unopen down owed to a spike successful cases. Meanwhile, schoolhouse districts are urging their students to disguise up.

Carnegie Elementary, different TPS school, closed its doors past Thursday and Friday for the aforesaid reason. Hawthorne's closure comes conscionable days aft the territory enactment retired a connection saying it volition fortify its caller masking policy.

It says effectual connected Sept. 7, each pupil volition deterioration a disguise astatine each times wrong schoolhouse buildings, and effectual arsenic of August 30, it says each unit volition deterioration a disguise astatine each times wrong schoolhouse buildings.

Oklahoma schools are incapable to mandate masks for students and unit according to a authorities instrumentality that took effect successful July. It’s unclear if the territory is going against the authorities instrumentality oregon the connection is different beardown encouragement from the district.

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