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Gradually making their way back

Students returning to D. 202 in Plainfield over the next 3 weeks

February 04, 2021 at 8:00 pm CST

A group of incoming sixth graders walk the hallway at Aux Sable Middle School during a new student tour on Monday, January 25, 2021. Incoming sixth graders were able to find classrooms and see the building before they return to in-person learning the week of February 1, 2021. (Photo provided)

By Denise M. Baran-Unland

District 202 continues to transition back to in-person learning over the next three weeks.

On Monday, sixth and ninth graders returned to in-person.

Indian Trail Middle School Assistant Principal Mason Luebbing talks to a group of new students before starting a school tour on Wednesday, January 27, 2021. Sixth and ninth graders will return to in-person classes the week of February 1, 2021. (Photo provided)

Multi-needs and students in specialized programs at all levels returned to in-person learning on Jan. 25.

Drauden Point Middle School Principal Kai Freeman watches a student get off the bus on Tuesday, January 26, 2021. District 202 students are returning to in-person learning this week starting with students in multi-needs and specialized program. (Photo provided)

Kindergarten and early childhood special education students returned on Tuesday.

The last set of students are scheduled to return Feb. 16.

Central Elementary School paraprofessional Natalie Pociask works with a kindergartner in person on Monday, January 25, 2021. District 202 this week started returning students to in-person learning. (Photo provided)

Students are split in groups and attend alternating days: y/Tuesday or Thursday/Friday.

(From left) Plainfield South High School Leadership Club member Joseph “Jojo” Colvin leads freshman Sophie Pellegrini to one of her classrooms on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 during a building tour. The leadership club, made up of high school seniors, was on hand to help answer questions for new students. (Photo provided)

All students learn remotely on Wednesdays.

For more information, visit psd202.org.

Crystal Lawns Elementary School nurse Lori Dela Fuente hands a plastic tooth chest to a kindergartner during a school tour on Thursday, January 28, 2021. Dela Fuente gave each student the little box to store a tooth if it fell out during school. Many students told her they had loose teeth ready to fall out. District 202 kindergartners are scheduled to return to in-person learning on Tuesday, February 2, 2021. (Photo provided)

People Will County back to school Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202

Denise M. Baran-Unland

Denise M. Baran-Unland is the features editor for The Herald-News in Joliet. She covers a variety of human interest stories. She also writes the long-time weekly tribute feature “An Extraordinary Life about local people who have died. She studied journalism at the College of St. Francis in Joliet, now the University of St. Francis.