ICGS Reopens with Body Temp Technology for In-person Learning

On Monday, August 24th, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students at Immaculate Conception Grade School in Elmhurst opened the 2020-2021 school year with in-person learning. Each subsequent day, additional grades joined the middle school students to begin their school year. Since the end of the 2019-2020 school year in May, ICGS' administrators worked with their full-time school nurse, Mrs. Trish Miller, to formulate (3) reopening plan options (an in-person option, a hybrid option, and a remote option). Ultimately, in collaboration with their Joliet Diocesan Catholic Schools Office, the decision was made to move ahead with in-person learning. In order to accommodate CDC mandates on social distancing, class sizes were reduced (so that desks can be safely spaced apart) and additional teachers were hired at nearly every grade level. Students are required to wear masks and do not rotate through classrooms as they did before the pandemic began. Instead teachers move from classroom to classroom for different subjects. Various health safety upgrades have been made to the school building including the addition of hand sanitizing stations, plexiglass shields at teacher desks, hands-free soap dispensers, electrostatic cleaning sprayers, and even a no contact infrared body temperature detector that every student must pass through daily.