The school said many of its students’ parents are essential workers.
Despite the ongoing shelter-in-place order across Georgia, one local preschool reopened Monday.
The school’s director told Channel 2′s Audrey Washington that most of the children’s parents are essential workers and need day care.
The Tabula Rasa Language Academy has schools in Sandy Springs and Lawrenceville. On Monday, Washington spoke to Jennifer Guevara, the director of the Lawrenceville location.
Guevara said that today she had 12 children and two teachers at the school and 14 kids and three teachers at the Sandy Springs location. The preschool has been deemed an essential business.
Guevara said school officials are going to great lengths to keep children and workers safe.
“We’re really going hardcore with this,” Guevara said. “We’re doing mandatory carpool where I physically get the child at the door, check their temperatures and signs of sickness. I physically wash the child’s hands with warm soap before I even allow the child into the building.”
Guevara also said that no parents or visitors are allowed inside the school. Guevara did say some parents have expressed reservations about the day cares reopening.
Georgia public schools are closed for the rest of the year after shutting down March 18.
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