Clintondale Community Schools sends all 8th grade students home after teacher tests positive for COVID
DETROIT – On Tuesday, a local school district sent an entire grade level home because of exposure to one teacher.
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Local 4 News has been following the Clintondale Community School District and was tipped off that the district is grappling with its first mass quarantine.
In a statement to Local 4 News, superintendent Roderick Broadnax confirmed the situation saying, “COVID cases, unfortunately, interrupted campus life in the Clintondale Community School District this week. Among those affected are 104 eighth graders and one seventh grader at Clintondale Middle School who are quarantined because of an exposure to a single teacher who tested positive for COVID last week.”
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