Tampa Day School, a private institution for kids with ADHD and dyslexia, faced a new set of challenges when the coronavirus changed the school’s daily operations.
Principal Lois Delaney says online classes were hard on students this spring.
“When you have a whole school of ADHD kids, yes it is very interesting online, the things we’ve seen, if we could only write a book about it,” Delaney said.
According to Delaney, she is glad to be back in school where the learning experience is more beneficial to the students.
The school is following all CDC guidelines for in-person classes. Desks are six feet apart while all students and faculty are required to wear a mask at all times.
Other precautions involve checking student’s temperatures in the mornings and putting up plexiglass barriers within the classrooms.
Middle school science teacher Megan Mahoney says that the older kids have an easier time following the CDC guidelines.
“You have to maintain that six feet even if you are wearing a mask. It’s harder for the smaller kids, but luckily for me, I teach middle school so they can follow the rules a little bit more clearly and they are more in-depth in that information”, Mahoney says. “Yes, it is difficult, but it is doable”.
Despite all difficulties, students and faculty are adapting to these new guidelines.
