COVID-19: MBMS is shut down due to COVID
A lesson in patience: Despite County Health Department approval to allow transitional kindergarten through second grade students to return to campus, the Hermosa Beach School Board voted this week to delay returning young students to campus until Jan. 13. Photo The five elementary schools of the Manhattan Beach Unified School District welcomed back their youngest students this week. But the Manhattan Beach Middle School’s program for high needs students was shut down due to three COVID-19 cases. On Sunday, MBUSD sent out a letter to parents with kids at MBMS informing them that three positive COVID-19 cases had been discovered that had a connection with the campus. “Cleaning and disinfecting of the exposed location has been completed,” the district’s statement said. “In all three cases, the most recent of which was last on campus on Friday, November 20, MBUSD investigated to determine who was within six feet of the person for at least 15 minutes and took action to send anyone who was in such proximity home until further notice. Because we have three positive COVID-19 cases that the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has determined appear to be epidemiologically…
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