By Lyonel Doherty
Times-Chronicle
Pupils line up to wash their hands after recess at Tuc-el-Nuit Elementary. (Photo by Lyonel Doherty)
Where is everyone?
Just follow the arrows and you’re bound to see a staff member around the next corner.
Such is the case at Tuc-el-Nuit Elementary School where you can almost hear a pin drop on some days.
At the front entrance, you have to sanitize your hands and sign in before continuing on.
Green arrows show you the way around the school, and you best stick to them (or else be sent to the principal’s office; just kidding).
Some classrooms are empty while others have up to six students in them, all spaced apart.
Principal Patsy-Anne Takacs wanders the hallways and classrooms to see how pupils and teachers are doing while following safety protocols.
She joins a Kindergarten class outside where girls and boys play “freeze” while listening to funky music. (She loses a game and has to do five jumping jacks.)
After sitting down on the grass, the pupils stretch out their arms to measure themselves for social distancing.
Meanwhile, another class comes in from recess and the pupils line up six feet apart to wash their hands before resuming their schoolwork.
Takacs says you have to be realistic, in other words, you can’t expect children to stay far apart all the time, but teachers do their best to keep reminding them.
