Photos: After Months Away, Madison Goes Back To School

MADISON, CT — For many months, Madison school kids learned from their homes. Thursday, the so-called Cohort A returned to their classrooms. Though things were admittedly very different.

Opening in a hybrid model, where half of the student attend one day, the other half the next, with all doing distance learning on Wednesdays, it was back to school in Madison.

With a chorus of “welcome back,” and “we missed you,” students were greeted and welcomed back to their first day.

Here are photos from Daniel Hand High School, Walter C Polson Middle School and J. Milton Jeffrey Elementary School.

Paraprofessional Erin Chester is a literacy coach at Jeffrey. She said she was, "very excites to be back."

"I'm excited for these kids. I'm excited for my own kids," she told Patch early Thursday outside the school. "It's very important. I'm happy to see everybody. The classes all look cute. I think that everybody's made the best of the situation."

Patty Schiraldi is a para-educator in Kindergarten at Jeffrey.

"I'm so, so excited. The kids came to orientation with their moms and dads they are just so excited and so are the teachers. We're very happy we're going back to the hybrid," she said.

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