Good evening!
Tonight the board voted to update the reopening plan with new guidance from the CDC, KDHE, and the Rice County Health Department. The new policies for exclusion from school are below. Hopefully the changes will help keep more kids in school while keeping everyone safe. If your student is currently at home in isolation or in the Test to Stay protocol continue with what you are doing. Tomorrow we will contact students who's status will change.
Updates to The USD 376 Reopening Plan
Students in quarantine:
Can continue in-school testing + masking for their required 5 day quarantine to allow them to be in-school during that quarantine period.
Will continue masking through day 10 and will test on day 7 and 10. (So testing for those in quarantine will be day 1-5, 7, and 10)
If they do not participate in in-school testing or refuse to wear a mask, they still must do a 10-day home quarantine.
Students in quarantine must test on a day of competition if it's anywhere in the 10 days of quarantine. If they test negative,they do not have to wear a mask during competition.
Out of school and household contacts are now eligible for Test to Stay.
Students who are positive for COVID:
Must isolate at home for 5 days without exception
Must test negative on the morning of day 6 in order to return to school on day 6. If the student tests positive on the morning of day 6, they will automatically need to complete the full 10 day isolation at home.
Must be fever free for 24 hours without fever-reducing medication and must have no symptoms or resolving symptoms by the time of their return on day 6.
Must continue to wear a mask from day 6-10. If they refuse to mask, they will be sent home.
Cannot play sports or other activities that would cause them to be without a mask, with the exception of eating, until after day 10. These students will be socially distanced while eating
Masks should be surgical masks, n95/kn95, or two layer cloth approved by the school nurse.