LCA fights covid with updgrades

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Public school across the nation are starting the school year virtually including fayette county.

Private schools on the other hand are in a separate category.

Abc 36s justin roth spoke to lexington christian academy on how they are preparing for the school year in a world with covid 19 lexington christian academy serves students from preschool through high school with nearly 1500 students it's one of the largest private scentralentucky.

And the task to keep student safe this year is just as large.

The school has created a covid-19 response team, which meets regularly, and has started putting several safety measures in place in anticipation of the new school year.

09 seth robinson "we've incorporated an electrostatic sprayer which actually sprays and chlorine derivative and it wraps all the way around the surface."

Lca has also installed a new air c1 3 filtration system to mitigate the spread of potential airborne virus but it will also have a future impact.

09 seth robinson "not only will it help us with covid but as we move back to normal school years, those stomach bugs and flu bugs that you see in a normal school year it will help us keep those mitigated as well."

Robinson admits they are constantly fielding questions from parents while keeping up with the cdc 08 seth robinson "we are following those same cdc guidelines that are cofor schoeg target."

Faculty has made it a point to focus part of the beginning of the year on last year's subject 10 seth robinson "spend a little bit of time assessing those students making sure we know where we need to catch them up a little bit and getting them ready to succeed for the rest of the school year and not propagating the opportunity to be behind."

If students or parents still aren't comfortable with going back to class there are still virtual options.

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