From the morning temperature checks to half-empty classrooms to the staggered dismissal, face-to-face learning looks a lot different these days in one South Florida school.
While most Palm Beach County schools will open their campuses Monday, Renaissance Charter School at Wellington got a head start, giving a preview of what parents might expect at schools opening in a pandemic — assuming everything goes as planned.
If Renaissance is any indication, students will have plenty of room to spread out. Parents of only 42% of the 556 students decided to go back to the school. The rest are learning virtually from the same teachers instructing kids in the classroom.
The day starts with a school official greeting parents in their cars. Parents use their cellphones to scan a code where they must enter their child’s name, any illness and whether they’ve traveled outside the country recently. The children’s foreheads are scanned for a temperature reading.