Vol. 100 No. 1 October 2021
The student-run newspaper of McKinley High School
Established in 1920
SCHOOL RESUMES IN PERSON
AS DELTA VARIANT RAGES
Social guidelines force students to congregate outside at recess. Students are to remain outdoors with social distancing during non-class times (before and after school, recess, and lunch). There will be no loitering in building hallways and classrooms. Photo by Shane Kaneshiro.
by Shane Kaneshiro, reporter As students return to in-person learning amidst the highly contagious delta variant surge, students and staff are potentially being exposed to COVID-19 on campus. Although McKinley High School implements the four core mitigating strategies of vaccination, staying home when sick, correct and consistent masking indoors and
outdoors, and following respiratory etiquette, some still feel anxious. Student body government secretary Sofia Koutouzos said, ?We're all crammed in there. There's like thirty of us in small classrooms, and it's kind of scary." Koutouzos suggests to limit the number of kids in the classroom or to space them out. ?I'm a little nervous about it (delta variant) because the infectious cases are going up pretty fast. It's a little RS 22-0260 - October 2021