Dear Parents and Faculty,
As we approach the end of another extraordinary and challenging week, I want to send a heartfelt message of thanks to everyone in our school family for their ongoing participation, partnership, cooperation and support. What I truly love about our community is the way that we consistently uplift and give one another positive feedback and energy.
Chazakim u’vruchim
! I also want to extend our sincere gratitude to Dr. Danielle Greene, Chief of Staff at the New York Department State of Health, and Michael Snow, Director of Jewish Affairs for Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, for joining us last night during our virtual Zoom meeting, and for serving as our liaisons to the NYSDOH, and to Governor Cuomo’s office.
After evaluating the current status in our community, we have determined that WTA will remain closed through the week of March 20, 2020.
As the situation continues to be very fluid, we will re-evaluate our school closure towards the end of next week, and we will update our plans at that time. Moving forward, we will continue to assess the situation week by week, and we will keep you informed as plans are determined.
Until further notice, all students and staff will remain in precautionary home quarantine until Monday night, March 16th. Recognizing that this is an evolving situation requiring our ongoing cooperation, I would like to emphasize that our responsibility to keep our children and everyone else safe overrides all other concerns or inconveniences. Therefore, I strongly encourage that even after March 16th, our community should collectively agree to abide by the decisions reached by our lay, educational and rabbinic leadership on the basis of expert medical advice, to uniformly adhere to these standards, and to communicate collectively. We will provide on our website the recommended guidelines for social distancing once the quarantine period has ended.
In the meantime, please be assured that WTA continues its commitment to the education of our children. To make this time as productive as possible, we are conducting
real
learning through our “virtual” classrooms every single day on the newly launched, secure
WTA Virtual Learning website
, and those classes are beautiful and inspiring to see. Currently under construction with different features being added and constantly updated, the website will become the central online information hub for the entire WTA community, conveniently gathering in one place all of our communications, helpful resources for students and parents, and providing community learning opportunities, such as online yoga classes, and other activities.
As our community has joined together as one, our physical distance has revealed to us the spiritual bonds that connect our hearts. May these spiritual ties be strengthened, with
HaShem’s
continued help and blessing.
Shabbat Shalom,
Deganit Ronen
Principal
