{"id":4042,"date":"2021-01-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2021-01-29T10:21:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:21:54","slug":"st-john-bosco-high-school-invests-in-latest-safety-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2021\/01\/29\/st-john-bosco-high-school-invests-in-latest-safety-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John Bosco High School Invests in Latest Safety Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

By:\u00a0 Zack Tawatari
\n<\/strong>“St. John Bosco High School Invests in Latest Safety Technology”
\nSpectrum News 1, Jan. 28, 2021<\/p>\n

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BELLFLOWER, Calif. \u2014 Up close the desks, the chairs and the whiteboards in school classrooms might look the same, but it\u2019s clear that when you take a step back, a lot has changed.<\/p>\n

With safety measures liked plexiglass, spacing, signage, and of course masks, St. John Bosco High School has been able to welcome back students like senior Nicolas Toney, and almost half of its students, in a staggered model.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI love it. It\u2019s great because after being home for so long, you don\u2019t really get that community aspect and Bosco\u2019s a brotherhood,\u201d Tony says.<\/p>\n

But Bosco teachers like Mario Cordero, who\u2019s an alumnus of the all-boys Catholic school in Bellflower, are taking their protocols a step further.<\/p>\n

In addition to following the L.A. County approved cohort system, the school is providing teachers with an enhanced layer of defense.<\/p>\n

Cordero is using a product called D-Fenz on an empty desk. It\u2019s a surface protectant that\u2019s supposed to kill germs, including COVID-19, for 28 days. And that\u2019s just on the surface.<\/p>\n

Bosco has now invested several hundred thousand dollars in sanitizers, surface protectants and a purification technology to be installed in February called Puradigm. According to the company, it’s the only purifier of its kind to be tested on the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Bosco says it’s the first educational institution of any kind to use it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s welcome news for Cordero, who isn\u2019t just a teacher, but also a father.<\/p>\n

\u201cI appreciate the fact the school has done, I think any and everything in their power to keep our school safe,\u201d Cordero said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Greg Shepard has been marketing and selling the products with Back2Normal.tech.\u00a0Bosco made the move to purchase them after seeing they were used in the state of Texas\u2019s Capitol Complex.<\/p>\n

Of Puradigm specifically, Bosco ordered 71 room units and 130 \u201cgo,\u201d or personal units for staff. The units are intended to provide a sort of aura of defense.<\/p>\n

According to Shepard, millions of negative and positive ions form high energy clusters that work through the air and on surfaces. After about 15 minutes, they can deactivate nearly 75% of COVID viruses. After 24 hours, the virus should be undetectable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat these high energy clusters do, they kind of search and destroy and attack any virus, bacteria, mold, mildew and off gassing,\u201d Shepard said.<\/p>\n

For Cordero the protocols and technology lessens \u201cgaps\u201d as he calls them, in interaction.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that I miss about having the boys here is that you have them close to you. There\u2019s that real contact. They\u2019re working in groups, they\u2019re participating, they\u2019re raising their hands, they\u2019re laughing,\u201d Cordero said.<\/p>\n

And for Toney, in a year that\u2019s been anything but normal, he\u2019s happy to be able to recover something from what he and his peers have missed out on.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s complaining that we didn\u2019t have a senior year, and I\u2019m very grateful that our school is one of the schools that\u2019s taken all of these safety precautions to allow the seniors and a lot of the students to come back part-time to experience some part of school,\u201d Toney said.<\/p>\n

He’s still behind a piece of glass, but he’s spending less time in front of a screen.<\/p>\n

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By:\u00a0 Zack Tawatari “St. John Bosco High School Invests in Latest Safety Technology” Spectrum News 1, Jan. 28, 2021 BELLFLOWER, Calif. \u2014 Up close the desks, the chairs and the whiteboards in school classrooms might look the same, but it\u2019s clear that when you take a step back, a lot has changed. With safety measures liked plexiglass, spacing, signage, and of course masks, St. John … Continuar leyendo St. John Bosco High School Invests in Latest Safety Technology<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20310044],"tags":[35890,24976],"class_list":["post-4042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-province-news","tag-featured","tag-schools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-13c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}