Canisteo-Greenwood Central School District

Good morning, due to updated qualifications for a quarantine, the district will be holding its Board of Education meetings in person moving forward. Tonight's meeting at 6pm will be held in the HS Auditorium. Anyone attending, please come through the front doors for temperature imaging, wear a mask, and please sit 6 seats from any other individual, in any direction. Thank you.

Good afternoon, We were informed earlier today that we have a positive high school student. This student was last in the building Monday, March 1st. Due to the time that the student was in the building, we only need to quarantine a few students from the morning bus run (2). The affected families have been contacted. Yours in service, Thomas J. Crook Superintendent

As we approach Sectionals week, in the event that CG hosts any games, there will be the usual $5 fee for Sectional spectators. Our county health regulations will not change and we will continue with 2 spectators/player for home spectators only.

Good morning, this is just a friendly reminder to all families that may have traveled out of state (other than a bordering state) for Winter Recess. State health regulations require all who traveled to quarantine for 3 days upon coming back to NY and get a Covid test on the 4th day. No staff or students should report to school until after they receive a negative Covid test. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause but we must follow NYSDOH guidelines.

Tonight's basketball games will broadcast through the District's Facebook page rather than the Live Coverage on the website. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Spread the word. https://www.facebook.com/Canisteo-Greenwood-Central-School-166125973480972

Steuben County announced today that they are allowing home spectators for winter sports starting Monday, February 15th. Please check the District's Facebook page or your email for details.

The Clay Target Team will be hosting an informational Zoom meeting for parents and students tonight at 6pm. Please click on the link below to join. https://zoom.us/j/97353779453?pwd=K3UyWG04T2xuWVY2aG1rV0J0SXcxZz09

The district experienced some power outages that have affected our phone system. We are working on getting it resolved as quickly as possible. It is mostly occurring at the high school. Thank you for your patience.

Want to watch the varsity girls basketball game tonight against Addison? Click the livestreaming link below- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtmQfvwOxLjKccITMh0

Good afternoon, We received a call from the county health department this afternoon informing us that we have a positive 8th grade student. Our contact tracing efforts took us back to last Thursday, when the student was last in the building. Mr. Reynolds has completed the contact tracing and all the affected families and employees have been contacted. There will be 24 students and 2 employees quarantined in connection with this positive case. Please stay vigilant in your masking and physical distancing efforts to keep our students and staff safe. The numbers are declining in the county and we are on a good trend downward. Yours in service, Thomas J. Crook Superintendent

Here is the link for tonight's Board of Education meeting that begins at 6:00pm. https://zoom.us/j/92687468212

Due to many circumstances, Canisteo-Greenwood is closing for Wednesday, February 3rd.

Good morning, due to some accumulation, high winds, and drifting over night, Canisteo-Greenwood will be operating on a 2-hour delay this morning.

Practice times for Monday, Feb. 1st HS Gym 2:30-4:00 PM Modified Girls Basketball 4:00-5:30 PM Modified Boys Basketball 5:30-7:30 PM Varsity Wrestling Elementary Gym 1:15-3:15 PM Girls JV Basketball 3:15-4:45 PM Varsity Boys Basketball 4:45-5:45 PM JV Boys Basketball 5:45-7:45 PM Girls Varsity Basketball

Good afternoon, We found out today that we have 3 new positive COVID-19 cases at Canisteo-Greenwood. 1 is an elementary employee, and 2 are elementary students. All 3 individuals were already quarantined due to a positive contact/suspected contact. There is no need to do any contact tracing for any of these cases because the last time any of them were in the building was January 21st. Yours in service, Thomas J. Crook Superintendent

Good afternoon, The NYS Education Department is looking for community input regarding state testing this year. It will ask if you think we should have any state testing and whether or not you feel accountability requirements should be waived. Please click on the link below to provide your input if you choose to do so. https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=6BbvFeBMw0-S4mp6bI52XjnbFEdJun5JlAaAy3EjocNUN1ZKS0xUT0dVUElWSU9WREowM0YzNVBXMy4u

Good morning, As you may have heard last night, the county has given us the green light to begin high-risk sports starting February 1st; with athletes required to wear masks and no spectators. I wanted to address the two criteria so you, as a community, know the reasoning behind them. MASKING - this one was easy for us and a non-negotiable. We require to have our students masked throughout the school day and it is extremely hypocritical to say during sports "wear masks as tolerated". As I stated earlier this year, our job is to keep schools open safely and if we can provide more for our kids to participate in, I am all for it. But we must be smart about it. As we witnessed in the fall, our athletes wore masks and they were fine. Sure, they fell down once in awhile due to physical movement but the intent of the rule was always followed and our kids did a fantastic job. Unfortunately, there will be other leagues in the Section that are going to use the lose wording of "wear masks as tolerated" and not require masks for their athletes. I do not want to speculate to the reasons why they feel they cannot tell their athletes to wear a mask, but I struggle with the messaging of masking all day in school and then after 3 pm say "if you cannot tolerate it, that's ok. Just take it off". NO SPECTATORS - This one took a little while to talk through with the county. We understand that parents want to watch their children participate. Because fall sports were outside, it was a little bit easier to manage. With the winter sports being inside, everything changes. Now we have everyone in one space for more than an hour at a time. What that means is that if anyone tests positive in the gymnasium, ALL individuals would qualify for quarantine (athletes, coaches, officials, scorekeepers AND spectators). So what this boils down to is that our spectators would be at risk of a 10-day quarantine and/or exposure. How many of our parents want to be off work for 10 days? The other part of the logic is that if any one of the spectators tested positive, then everyone in the gymnasium would have to quarantine. By not having spectators, we lessen the risk of exposure for all involved. The season is going to be very short and we would not want to lose 2 weeks of competition due to a positive spectator, which is something we have control over. I know this is an unpopular decision, but weighing everything out it provides the best opportunity for our students to have a full season and protects the integrity of our safety plan to keep school open. Having the state allow high-risk sports is a big deal. I honestly did not think that it was going to happen and was hanging on to a sliver of hope for our kids. Every day that went by after January 4th (original start date for high-risk sports),the chances were dwindling. NY was one of only 4 states that was not allowing high-risk sports. It is a gift to our students to be able to participate and we must make sure that they remain safe and have a memorable experience. The county did allow some autonomy to do something for senior night. We will be working out a plan to honor our senior athletes and their parents. Details forthcoming. As always, if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to reach out. I am always willing to have a conversation about any decisions that are made. Yours in service, Thomas J. Crook Superintendent

Yesterday morning we had an error in our attendance system notifying you that your student was absent. This error was caused by an update to our student management system over the weekend that contained a new attendance logic. The system inadvertently marked all students absent, triggering the calls. The district immediately sent out an all call to notify parents of this error and have learned that the all call did not reach all of our families (roughly half). We apologize for any inconvenience that this has caused and please know that we are working hard to remedy this as soon as possible. There are many moving pieces into having an automated system and yesterday, they failed. We know that receiving a phone call stating that your child was absent when you know you put them on the bus, dropped them off, or saw them walk out the door can be heart-wrenching and we sincerely apologize. We will learn from this experience and ask our companies that, after an update, they double check to make sure that this doesn't happen again. Yours in service, Thomas J. Crook Superintendent

Good afternoon, This morning we learned of a positive elementary student. The administrative team has completed the contact tracing and all affected families and employees have been contacted. The classroom (21) and the teachers (2) will be in quarantine, along with a bus driver. We continue to encourage our families to prescreen their students before sending them to school. The symptoms remain minor for students, and any minor symptom cannot be ignored. Yours in service, Thomas J. Crook Superintendent

Good afternoon, We received a call from the county health department letting us know that we have a positive high school student. The administrative team has completed their contact tracing, and the affected families have been contacted. Yours in service, Thomas J. Crook Superintendent