Clarendon CISD released updated protocols related to COVID-19 following a meeting of the Board of Trustees on September 13.
Among the updated protocols is language for students and staff who are exposed to a COVID positive person in the home highly encouraging them to stay home for the physician’s recommended stay-at-home time. However, the protocol does allow those students or staff exhibiting no symptoms after five days to be tested and return to school early.
Students and staff who are fully vaccinated do not need to quarantine after a close contact exposure but should still get tested within five to seven days of the exposure, the protocol says.
CCISD Nurse Debbie Thompson said the school has administered about 300 tests over the last three weeks (some of those are repeat tests on the same students or staff) and has had 12 positives as of the end of last week. Five of those positives were tested again at Clarendon Family Medical Center.
Thompson said the testing effort is working to help keep students and staff healthy.
“We’re catching things earlier,” she said. “That gets kids and staff out of school quicker if they’re sick and results in them getting back to school quicker.”
Thompson said she administered several tests Monday and has had no positives this week as of Tuesday morning.
Thompson also said that about 3.1 percent of the student/staff population or 14 people of 444 were reported absent Tuesday due to active COVID-19.
CCISD Trustees also took action last week to extend paid leave to district personnel who are COVID positive by passing a resolution to give them 80 hours of extended leave.
Follow these links to read the revised CCISD protocols and for Frequently Asked Questions.
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