Can anyone help find where they might have received guidance to make this part of the policy? This is getting the most push back, and those who want the district to go to all distance learning are pushing this as reckless and uninformed.


from their website:
Primary exposure: A primary exposure would include proximity (within 6 ft.) to a person with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 for a period of more than 15 min. without a face mask.

• Report of a student/employee having a primary exposure should be made to campus or department administrator
• 3-day quarantine(at home)
• Return to school or work will require the student or employee to not have had symptoms for 72 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication and symptom-free prior to their return or with a release from their treating physician

Secondary exposure: A secondary exposure would include a person in the employee's household was in proximity (within 6 ft) of a person with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 for a period of more than 15 min. without a face mask.

• Student/Employee may come to school or work
• Monitor for symptoms

Pages 3 and 8-9 seems to counter this, actually.

https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/covid/Covid-19-SY-20-21-Public-Health-Guidance.pdf

Page 3:

Screening Questions for COVID-19 Before Campus Access1.School systems must require teachers and staff to self-screen for COVID-19 symptoms before coming onto campus each day. Symptoms are listed at the end of this document. The self-screening should include teachers and staff taking their own temperature. Teachers and staff must report to the school system if they themselves have COVID-19 symptoms or are lab-confirmed with COVID-19, and, if so, they must remain off campus until they meet the criteria for re-entry as noted below. Additionally, they must report to the school system if they have had close contact with an individual who is lab-confirmed with COVID-19, as defined at the end of this document, and, if so, must remain off campus until the 14-day incubation period has passed.

Pages 8-9:

Close Contact
This document refers to "close contact" with an individual who is lab-confirmed to have COVID-19. Close contact is determined by an appropriate public health agency. For clarity, close contact is defined as: a.being directly exposed to infectious secretions (e.g., being coughed on while not wearing a mask or face shield); or

b.being within 6 feet for a cumulative duration of 15 minutes, while not wearing a mask or face shield; if either occurred at any time in the last 14 days at the same time the infected individual was infectious.

This is what our private school is going off of.

Exactly. Anti in-person school people are all spun up about this. I would like to figure out where the district got this policy because right now it doesn't appear to be based on any recommendations from anywhere.

3 days post exposure is way too little time. At least 5 and even that is dicey IMO.

KidDoc said:

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3 days post exposure is way too little time. At least 5 and even that is dicey IMO.

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Well, the two Sergeants on one of our day shifts has been telling everyone to just keep coming in to work if exposed "unless feeling symptom" for awhile now.

Ironically, both of them, their Lieutenant, and at least one of their officers now are out with Covid.