Teachers at Apollo High School were asked to refrain from teaching their students from the school premises on Friday so the building could be sanitized.
Officials with Daviess County Public Schools said this was done as a precautionary measure in regard to the spread of COVID-19.
Superintendent Matt Robbins said the school is expected to reopen Wednesday. While the teachers are not teaching from the AHS building, they are continuing to teach online from home.
At last Thursday’s board of education meeting, Robbins said there had been four confirmed COVID-19 cases across DCPS staff, requiring 26 to quarantine.
Robbins said it was “a given” that community spread was going to make its way into schools, including AHS. Daviess County has recently seen an increase in COVID-19 cases, and Robbins said Thursday that the amount of community spread was often indicative of in-person school spread.
Robbins said he wanted to make sure the entire school was properly cleaned and sanitized before allowing staff to reenter the classroom.
“Health and safety are our No. 1 priorities,” he said, adding that teaching from home should not be an issue as it was done during the 2019-2020 school year when COVID-19 caused most Kentucky schools to close down.
