Warsaw School Board Hears About Reopening Plan
December 15, 2021 at 2:28 a.m.
Warsaw School Board Hears About Reopening Plan
By Jackie Gorski-
The reopening plan is also available on WCS’ website, he said.
In September, the Board approved Hoffert’s recommendation to mandate masks for all WCS schools until the county went into yellow for at least two weeks. The county was in the orange designation at the time.
In-person classes start Jan. 10 for all schools.
Under the current executive orders of Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, the Indiana Health Department required control measures, Hoffert said.
WCS is going mask optional in the second semester due to the vaccine availability for all students, he said.
In November, the Board approved the recommendation to go mask optional in the second semester. If the county had been in the yellow designation for at least two weeks, it would have gone mask optional sooner.
Under a mask-optional policy, contact tracing and close contact tracing is required for unvaccinated students, Hoffert said.
While WCS is mask optional starting Jan. 10, close contacts of those who test positive with COVID-19 will be required to quarantine, according to the reopening plan.
In the reopening plan for both elementary and secondary schools, if students have COVID symptoms, students must be fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication and have an improvement of symptoms after three days home before returning to school. Individuals or households who test positive for COVID will be required to follow local and state health department quarantine guidelines before returning to school.
“We do want to encourage people to talk to their local physician about the vaccine option. We also realize we cannot do this alone, and this has become a consistent statement that has been made over the last two years. If students are not feeling well, please keep them home,” he said. Keeping students home when they are not feeling well is the number one safety protocol that can be done with COVID, especially when getting into cold and flu season.
Cleaning products will be used daily for all high-touch areas in school, classroom and on buses, according to the reopening plan.
As of July 28, the federal Department of Transportation requires masks on all buses in Indiana, which will remain in effect during second semester.
Schools will have traditional activities physically open to healthy parents, guardians and community members.
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The reopening plan is also available on WCS’ website, he said.
In September, the Board approved Hoffert’s recommendation to mandate masks for all WCS schools until the county went into yellow for at least two weeks. The county was in the orange designation at the time.
In-person classes start Jan. 10 for all schools.
Under the current executive orders of Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, the Indiana Health Department required control measures, Hoffert said.
WCS is going mask optional in the second semester due to the vaccine availability for all students, he said.
In November, the Board approved the recommendation to go mask optional in the second semester. If the county had been in the yellow designation for at least two weeks, it would have gone mask optional sooner.
Under a mask-optional policy, contact tracing and close contact tracing is required for unvaccinated students, Hoffert said.
While WCS is mask optional starting Jan. 10, close contacts of those who test positive with COVID-19 will be required to quarantine, according to the reopening plan.
In the reopening plan for both elementary and secondary schools, if students have COVID symptoms, students must be fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication and have an improvement of symptoms after three days home before returning to school. Individuals or households who test positive for COVID will be required to follow local and state health department quarantine guidelines before returning to school.
“We do want to encourage people to talk to their local physician about the vaccine option. We also realize we cannot do this alone, and this has become a consistent statement that has been made over the last two years. If students are not feeling well, please keep them home,” he said. Keeping students home when they are not feeling well is the number one safety protocol that can be done with COVID, especially when getting into cold and flu season.
Cleaning products will be used daily for all high-touch areas in school, classroom and on buses, according to the reopening plan.
As of July 28, the federal Department of Transportation requires masks on all buses in Indiana, which will remain in effect during second semester.
Schools will have traditional activities physically open to healthy parents, guardians and community members.
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