Tomorrow, Friday October 8th, our girls’ varsity soccer team will host Alfred-Almond in the first round of the Steuben County Soccer Tournament. This contest will start at 6:00pm at the Elementary School. Wear red and white and show off your C-G pride!
Since our report on Thursday of last week, the district has submitted 3 new high school student cases and 1 high school teacher case to the county. The contact tracing has been completed which yielded 8 student quarantines. All of the affected families for quarantine have been contacted. We wish all who are covid positive a healthy and speedy recovery.
Many of our cases continue to be from contact with a positive household/family member. We ask that parents continue to monitor for any symptoms and keep your children home if you have any doubt.
Good afternoon, CG is reporting 3 positive cases today (2 HS students and 1 Elem Teacher). All contact tracing efforts have been completed and the 5 families have been notified. We wish all a healthy and speedy recovery.
CG is happy to report that we did not have any positive staff or student cases today! Our hope is that this downward trend continues. Have a great evening.
Parents/Community Members,
Late Sunday night the Canisteo-Greenwood Athletic Department was notified that their opponent for this week’s Varsity Football game is unable to play due to quarantines. Our Superintendent and Athletic Director worked all Monday exploring opportunities for our team to play. By the end of the day Monday we could not find a team in Section V, Section VI, or Section IV willing to travel to Canisteo-Greenwood to play a game. We were approached by a team in Section V who was willing to play us but only if they hosted on Friday the 1st. The Superintendent, Athletic Director, and coaches all feel that not playing a game this week would be devastating for our kids as we have already lost a game earlier in the season due to our opponent canceling. We all feel it is best to play even if it means traveling this Friday. We as a district understand the disappointment of not having a home football game during Homecoming Week but we will make the most of this opportunity. We encourage everyone to travel to Pembroke this Friday (7:00pm kickoff) to support our players and coaches.
Thank you for your support,
Canisteo-Greenwood CSD
Since our communication last Thursday, CG has 8 additional cases which yielded 22 quarantines. We wish all a speedy and healthy recovery.
CG is reporting 2 new cases today (a HS student and an elementary staff member). From the district's contact tracing, 45 students have been placed in quarantine. We wish the student and staff member a quick and healthy recovery.
At this time, we would like to report our cases and quarantines to date: We have seen 30 cases since the beginning of the school year (6 staff and 24 students). From our quarantine investigations, the district has reported 98 students in total to the county that met the requirements. We will continue to report cases as we get them.
Yours in service,
Tom Crook
Today CG is reporting 3 positive HS students. All the contact tracing has been completed and the families affected for quarantine have been contacted. We wish all a speedy and healthy recovery. We apologize for the later notice today.
CG is reporting 1 positive case today of a HS staff member. Due to the timing of the symptoms and the staff member not being in school, no contact tracing was required. The late positive reported in yesterday's numbers but the investigation was still ongoing yielded 15 students being quarantined due to being within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes collectively throughout the day.
Good afternoon,
I just wanted to send out an update regarding the recent cases here at CG. I know many are asking “what is going on”? That is a question that has ringing through my head at the end of last week and all weekend. Here are a few things that I feel would be important to bring to light. I am sure there are more, but these are the main ones.
1. Last fall, we did not have many outside activities that the students were participating in. We were coming into the school year after being off since. People were excited to be returning to in-person learning even though there were going to be guidelines (masking, distancing, etc.) Because of “higher risk” sports being cancelled, most kids went home and did not hang out with each other. Some did, but we still didn’t know too much about what covid was going to look like getting our kids back together in school. This year, the students (thankfully) can participate in the things they love to do with no outside restrictions.
2. Last fall, the district did not have the capability of doing its own testing. We didn’t for the entire year for that matter. The access to on-the-spot testing has assisted us in catching more covid cases. We are only testing staff and students that are symptomatic and are not doing any “screen testing”. Our positive tests have only come from individuals displaying symptoms and if the parents have asked to test the siblings. We feel it is the right thing to do when a parent requests to have the siblings tested.
a. Please, if your child is symptomatic, we ask that you keep them home. You may call the school to schedule a rapid test, or you can take them to your primary health care physician. Every positive test, except one, the individuals had clear symptoms.
3. The delta variant is more contagious than the original strand. Many of our cases are coming from households where if one person gets covid, most in the home do as well. I asked if they were seeing this across the county and they said “yes”.
These are just a few outliers that I have been contemplating and I am not trying to make excuses. Things are different than they were last school year that need to be a part of our conversations and thinking. Rest assured; the district is doing everything we can to protect all who enter our doors. We are abiding by all the regulations (acknowledging that they are stricter) and go above and beyond when we can. Just an example, last Friday Mrs. Brownell spent hours distancing in the cafeteria so that our students are now eating at 6 feet rather than the recommended 3 feet. Another example is changing our air turnover rate from 4 times per hour to 8 times per hour in the classrooms. We have also continued to use our thermal cameras which tagged a feverish student last week that ended up positive after being tested.
When asking “what is going on” at the school, please know that everything we know to do is being done to stop any potential spread and we are relying on the experts to provide us the proper mitigation strategies. The frustrating part is not really knowing whether there was a transmission in school or outside of the school system. In many cases, we may never know that answer but what I do know is that school is the only place right now that has mitigation strategies mandated by the NYS Department of Health. Our students and staff are more protected here than anywhere else.
I will continue to assess our situation and keep our student’s and staff’s health in the forefront of my decisions. If there is ever a time you have any questions or concerns, I ask that you reach out to me to have that conversation.
Yours in service,
Tom
Since last Friday, the district is reporting 6 positive student cases (2 Elem and 4 HS). All but one of the cases have been contact traced and the affected individuals for quarantine have been contacted (3). Once the last case is investigated, we will be reaching out to the families for quarantine. We wish a speed and healthy recovery to these students.
Today CG is reporting 4 positive student cases. Contact tracing has been completed and 13 students have been quarantined. We wish our students a speedy and healthy recovery.
Our cases recently in the elementary school are concerning. 12 of the 18 cases reported since the beginning of the school year are elementary-aged students. I have been in contact with the county health department and we will be keeping a close eye on our cases and students in quarantine potentially becoming symptomatic. Since the pandemic has started ,we have not seen this many cases in a 7-day timeframe (16). Our main goal is to keep our students and staff safe and healthy.
Yours in service,
Tom Crook
Good afternoon. Today CG is reporting a positive HS student. The contact tracing has been completed and 1 student was identified for quarantine. We wish the student a speedy and healthy recovery. Just a reminder, tonight at 6:30 Mr. Crook will be conducting a webinar on the new covid regulations. The link was sent out a few days ago but we will send it out again approximately 15 minutes (via text) prior to the webinar for your convenience.
Tonight's webinar regarding the new covid regulations with Mr. Crook starts in 15 minutes. https://zoom.us/j/96699666353
The district had 4 positive student cases today (1 HS and 3 Elem). The cases yielded 15 quarantines. We wish them all a healthy and speedy recovery. As a reminder, please make sure that you are still self-screening your children before school and keeping them home if they are symptomatic.
Today, Canisteo-Greenwood received word of a positive HS staff member. The member became symptomatic over the weekend and has not been in the building this week. Due to staff vaccinations, there are no quarantines to report to the county. We wish our staff member a healthy recovery.
Just a friendly reminder to our parents/guardians about the district supplying masks to our students. When the state announced they were requiring masks to start the school year, we immediately ordered more disposable masks. We have a good supply available and student can get a new one any time.
Since last Friday, CG has received word of 5 positive covid cases (2 staff and 3 students). Contact tracing has been completed for 4 of the cases and anyone affected for quarantine have been contacted. The 5th case was just reported and contact tracing has started. We wish all a healthy recovery.
Please join Mr. Crook this Thursday at 6:30pm for a webinar regarding the new covid regulations. Since the regulations are different from last school year, Mr. Crook wishes to clarify those changes in hopes to avoid any confusion as CG begins to see positive cases.
https://zoom.us/j/96699666353
We apologize. The "opt in our out" text will start Monday and the first time you receive a text.