Should I get my child tested?

• Yes, if your child shows 2 symtpoms of COVID-19, no matter the length of time they have those symptoms.  

Self Monitoring 

• Each morning, prior to arriving at school, employees, student families and any visitor will complete a Daily Self-Monitoring Check.
• The Daily Self-Monitoring Check will include:
  • Temperature Check: if 100.4 or greater, you should not be coming to school.
  • Check for symptoms of a sore throat, new uncontrolled cough, diarrhea, vomiting or abdominal pain or a severe headache. If symptoms are present, stay home. 
  • If someone you may have been in contact with has COVID, and you were within 6 feet for 15 minutes or more, you should stay home.  

Positive Test Case 

• The County Health Department will be made aware of all positive test cases and will contact us if we have one in the building. It is much faster if parent reach out as soon as they know.
• They will advise us on how to handle it.
• Through Contact Tracing, we will be informing those that have come in contact with the person who had a positive test confirmed.  
• In our case, it will be the Cohort grade that we will be contacting.
• This will trigger a 14-day quarantine for the Cohort group and learning will immediately switch to virtual.
• Siblings of a positive test case will also be required to stay home for a 14-day quarantine.  These students will have access to live-streaming of classes.  

Return to School Guidance 

• Person with a positive test must isolate at home for 10 days and then must be asymptomatic for 24 hours.
• After a person with a positive test has been asymptomatic for 24 hours following the 10-day quarantine, they are allowed to rejoin in the learning taking place in person. 

**If someone in a household tests positive for COVID, the entire family must quarantine.  

Return to School Guidance Non-Covid Related Illness

• May return to school after 48 hours have passed free of fever without the use of fever-reducing medication; free of vomit/diarrhea without the use of medication; AND
• Has experienced an improvement in symptoms (runny nose, sore throat, cough). 

Quarantine  

• Close contacts are people who have been with someone who has tested positve for Covid.  You will be advised to quarantine for 14 days.
• If you are living with someone who has test positive for Covid you will have two quarantine options.
  • First, isolate the rest of the family from the member that has tested positive.  This will only be a 14 day quarantine
  • Or, if isolation is not possible the quarantine will be 24 days.