Precautions for The Parish School

Student and Family Procedures

Self-Screening

• Parents are asked to complete a self-screen at home before coming school. Please do not come to school if your child has any of the symptoms below:
  • Sore throat
  • Running Nose/Congestion outside your normal baseline (i.e. allergies)
  • New uncontrolled cough that causes difficulty breathing (for students with chronic allergic/asthmatic cough, a change in their cough from baseline)
  • New onset of severe headache, especially with a fever
  • Fever over 100.4
    
    

If your child is not able to pass this screen and attend school, please alert Angela Burris, school nurse at aburris@parishschool.org.  Decisions regarding failed health screens including determination of a return to school date will be made based on established guidelines.

If your child has failed the health screen and has NOT been diagnosed with COVID or been in close contact with a confirmed case, your child may return to school when: 

• The student has been fever-free without the use of fever-reducing medications for 24 hours after respiratory and COVID-19 symptoms have improved, and at least 10 days after symptoms first appeared.
• OR the student has received a negative Real-time PCR COVID-19 test result.
• OR you can provide documentation from a healthcare facility of a negative rapid antigen test conducted by a healthcare professional.
• OR the student has a doctor's release form.
• OR the student has an alternate diagnosis that has been resolved and COVID-19 has been ruled out. (No pending COVID-19 tests)  

If your child starts to exhibit any of the above symptoms during the school day, your child will be removed from class and placed in a waiting area away from others. The school nurse will supervise your child until a caregiver arrives for pick-up. Activities will be provided for your child as he/she waits, and Student and Family Services will be available if needed.

Close Contact

Close contact occurs when you are within six feet of a person diagnosed with COVID-19 for 15 minutes or more in a 24-hour period. For those who have been in close contact with a positive COVID-19 case but are not symptomatic, individuals may return to campus activities and programing. Continue to monitor for symptoms until 10 days after you last had contact with the individual who tested positive and get tested if you develop symptoms.

Diagnosis

Diagnosed: student may return on day six if symptoms are resolved and fever free without the aid of fever reducing medications for 24 hours. No test is needed to return.

Symptomatic

Symptomatic: for illness that includes fever 100.4 or above, the individual may return when to campus when:

• You have been fever-free without the use of fever-reducing medications for 24 hours after respiratory and COVID-19 symptoms have improved, and at least 10 days after symptoms first appeared.
• OR you have received a negative Real-time PCR COVID-19 test result.
• OR you can provide documentation from a healthcare facility of a negative rapid antigen test conducted by a healthcare professional.
• OR you have a doctor's release form
• OR you have an alternate diagnosis that has been resolved and COVID-19 has been ruled out. (No pending COVID-19 tests)

Other

• Wearing a mask on campus for all individuals is optional.
• Visitors are allowed on campus and must sign a visitor agreement form at administration when they check in.
• Classes will have normal proximity to other classes.
• If we are made aware that a faculty/staff member or student tests positive for COVID-19, the Health Department and/or Child Care Licensing will be notified, and a notification of potential exposure will be sent to families. Confidentiality will be maintained.
• Following international travel, self-monitor for symptoms. Isolate and take a COVID test administered at a medical facility (PCR or Rapid Antigen Test) if symptoms develop.
• Please be aware that calls and emails to staff after hours (5:00pm) may not be responded to until the following school day. If you are in need of a response prior to the start of school the next day, please call the office as early as 6:30am at extension 1114, and someone will be available to address your question or concern.
• Communications will be sent to impacted families regarding close contact with positive cases of COVID-19.