MORE SCHOOLS GOING REMOTE

Is inching closer to entering the so- called yellow zone....but we are not there yet.

109 coronavirus cases recorded in the last 24 hours-a new record.

Watching those numbers closely- school superintendents, as they try to dodge pathogens and decide how classes will be held.

On the heels of this highest number of new cases yet in the county, another school district plans to switch to remote learning after thanksgiving.

Here's newschannel 2's joleen ferris.

Karam many school superintendents look back with longing on the days when they didn't have to be medical management offices and teaching children could be a higher priority .

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None 8:55 "you don't learn this in administrative school.

You don't learn this in college.

No one could have predicted it" providing a quality education while dodging a virul pandemic has caused the playbook to be thrown out the window 5:51 "we are in a pandemic.

All of us are doing things we never thought we'd do before" for many, this includes deciding, sometimes on a daily basis, where school will even be; home or in a classroom.

Just in the past hour, whitesboro announced they're shifting to all remote learning after thanksgiving, til after holiday break, january 4th.

Little falls school district had already made the same decision, after a large spike in covid cases followed halloween 3:32 "well, if that's just from a weekend, what could we expect possibly after thanksgiving, a longer vacation?"

Utica is still all remote.

And after learning of one covid case at jfk middle school and two each at martin luther king, jr. and watson williams elementary schools, staff at those buildings are home while the oneida county health department does contact tracing.

Their tentative plan is back in class, partially, in late january 3:19 "so we're hoping by january, maybe this will settle down so that we can move forward with our karam many school superintendents look back with longing on the days when