Question: "Symptoms of colds (sore throat, runny nose, nasal congestion, cough) are similar to COVID symptoms. Does any child displaying these symptoms need to be tested for COVID? Every single time? And not return to school until you can produce a negative test?"
Answer: If parents detect COVID-19 symptoms, they should keep their child home. Symptoms of COVID-19 are temperature of 100.4 or signs of fever, sore throat, cough, diarrhea, vomiting, and/or new onset of severe headache. Parents should also keep a student home who is sick with other illnesses. We will be able to seamlessly move the student to an online learner while they recover. If a student displays these symptoms at school we'll follow the attached guidelines from the county health department Click Here for School Handout. This handout is also available on our website. Again, we'll move the child to online learning as we wait for a doctor's note or the expiration of a quarantine period, or negative COVID test if deemed necessary by doctor.
Question: "Can we switch to online learning after starting face to face? How quickly can we switch?"
Answer: We intend to treat all students as online learners from the start of school. This will make for a seamless transition if the student wants to change their learning option, is sick at any point of the year, or if the district moves to all online learning due to being reclassified by the state or if we have an outbreak.
Question: "Is there any news about class size?"
Answer: We won't know specific class sizes until after August 19th, the deadline for parents/students to make their selection for face to face or online learning.
Question: "We aren't understanding what the hybrid learning option is?"
Answer: A selection of hybrid learning could be a daily mix of some in person classes and some online classes; or a combination of attending certain days of the week in person while staying home for online learning other days.