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Harmony Public School Safe Return to School Plan

COVID-19 PROTOCOL FOR HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOL

DAILY SCREENING          

1. Parents screening using provided checklist; if parents send their child to school, they are certified healthy.  Some smaller schools may check temp at the door.
2. Staff also screen themselves. If they come to work, then they are certifying they have screened themselves.  

AT SCHOOL PROCEDURES       

 Isolation Room:  Any student or staff member who exhibits a fever of 100 degrees will be

 instantly isolated in a predetermined isolation room and immediately sent home.  After

 being sent home, the student or staff member cannot return to school until one of the

 following criteria is met:

•  Without COVID testing, the student or staff member must not be present at school for 10 days. 
• After a negative COVID test, the student or staff member can return to physical school  after 3 days of being fever free with no fever reducing medication.
• The student will become a distance learner at home until he/she can return to school.
• The student will be counted as present because digital learning will be provided.  
• The student will be entered into a Google form accessible only to necessary school personnel. 

POSITIVE CASE – ELEMENTARY SITE      

1. Consult with county Health Department to begin contact tracing.
2. Communicate to staff.
3. Communicate to applicable parents depending on classroom arrangement.
4. Thoroughly sanitize classroom.
5. Positive case classroom goes to distance learning for 14 days while those students are quarantined.  If the student has siblings, the siblings will be quarantined. 
6.  If the attendance of campus learners at the site and/or district where the positive case occurs reaches a 35% absenteeism rate, the site and/or district will go to distance learning for 14 days.  The count starts on the first day of distance learning. 
7.  Grab and Go meals will be provided starting on Day 1 of distance learning.  Delivery schedule will be dictated by the district’s Child Nutrition capabilities.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL ELEMENTARY TEACHERS   

1. Maximize classroom space (remove reading nooks, center areas, etc.)
2. One directional seating (for all classrooms that don’t have round tables)
3. Seating charts (required by all teachers for all classes)

MASK:

Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to wear a mask. Any person that chooses to wear a mask is encouraged to do so. At this time, masks are not required. It is recommended that parents purchase masks for their students prior to the start of the new school year in the event masks do become a requirement.

ACCESS TO SCHOOL FACILITIES

Due to COVID-19 and for the safety of our students, parents will only be allowed to enter the main building (office window only) during the regular school day. For assistance, parents are asked to call the office at (580)889-3687.

BUS TRANSPORTATION           

1. Recommend alternate transportation if possible for all bus riders.
2. Maximize air flow.
3. Seating chart required on all busses. 
4. Additional bus routes (district decision)

Board Approved:  06-14-2021