Flintville, TN Schools Back in Session on Monday

A Student and Staff Member Tested Positive for Coronavirus

We start tonight with breaking news.

In the last 30 minutes -- the superintendent of lincoln county schools says students at flintville school will be heading back to the classroom monday.

You're taking a live look at the school.

A student and a staff member both tested positive for coronavirus.

Thank you for joining us this evening.

I'm megan reyna.

And i'm will robinson-smith.

This is the second school in the district to have a student and a staff member test positive.

The other was south lincoln school on friday.

Now several faculty members are having to quarantine waay 31's casey albritton is live outside of flintville school with how the district is responding to the coronavirus cases.

Casey?

Superintendent bill heath says with so many teachers and faculty members being told to quarantine, the district is now having to find fill-in employees... and parents say they are starting to feel a little uncomfortable with the situation.

Amanda barker/ parent "scared.

I was scared that one of my kids may have been in contact with whoever tested positive."

Amanda barker says it was surprising to hear that two people tested positive at her child's school only one week after students returned to the classroom.

Amanda barker/ parent "it's one of those things.

No one knows what's going to happen."

Despite the new cases, she says she will continue to send her 12 year old daughter to flintville school.

Amanda barker/ parent "it's very nerve racking, but i do know that being in the school is the best thing for them.

I feel like they need that one on one with the teacher."

Parents in the lincoln county schools district aren't the only ones nervous about students being inside schools during a pandemic.

Cynthia mccrory/ grandparent "it's just an awful, scary thing."

Cynthia mccrory says even though her two grandsons are in fayetteville city schools--seeing cases in a district nearby is worrisome.

Cynthia mccrory/ grandparent "i think they should shut schools down because i think it's going to get worse before it gets better."

Barker hopes lincoln county schools leaders take the right steps going forward to keep students safe.

"everybody just has to work together to make sure, from one day to the next, they do what they can to minimize the cases."

Superintendent bill heath says going forward, all meetings between faculty members will be done over zoom or in an area where social distancing can be guaranteed.

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