Post by game blouses on Sept 3, 2021 11:11:58 GMT -5
Another CA school with a modified quarantine program, although I think our notifications might be different. Kids are masked indoors and optional outdoors when they're with their class (required when they're mixed with other classes). Maskless exposure for 15 minutes = 10 day quarantine, or 7 day with 2 negative tests. The class is notified if a student tests positive, but only close contacts have to quarantine. So far, we've had two sibling cases in the whole school and no spread.
Our school is adding pooled testing this month, which I'm happy about - every class is tested once a week, the results are pooled, and if the class comes up positive, they test individually.
Post by steamboat185 on Sept 3, 2021 11:35:06 GMT -5
Last year the entire class had to quarantine for every case. This year it’s within 3ft for more than 15 minutes in a 24 hour period regardless of masking, which seems like a decent compromise?
Our school considers close contact to be within 6 feet, unmasked for 15+ minutes. They eat lunch more than 6 foot distance if inside but mostly eat outside. We have a mask mandate for everyone in the building and a very high vaccination rate for staff/teachers (kids obviously too young) . We also have very good ventilation . Our district is very much into the “Swiss cheese” theory of layering as many things as possible since no one mitigation is 100%
It’s what we had last year and it worked: our entire district had no in school transmission for the year. Now, school only started here on Wednesday so I don’t know how delta will affect things. We have a whole panel advising the school comittee on health and safety (our town is where a lot of drs, epidemiologists , random expert people affiliated with the Boston hospitals live - so we are very lucky to have a lot of resources to draw on for advice) and I trust their recommendations . They meet weekly and adapt /change of necessary, so we shall see