For every day that a student is absent, they are given two days to complete their missed work. For example, a student who is absent for two days will be given four days to complete their missed assignments.
COVID-19 Information
Source: COVID-19 School Manual at Coronavirus.utah.gov (8/8/20)
Our goal: To provide a safe environment for students, teachers, and staff
Sick?
Symptoms of COVID-19
Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. If students, teachers, or employees have any of the 6 symptoms of COVID-19, which make them eligible for testing, they should call a healthcare provider and get tested for COVID-19, even if the symptom is mild.
Individuals with symptoms must isolate by staying at home (except to get medical care).
Should My Child Get Tested for COVID-19?
If a Student, Teacher, or Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19
If Someone at Home Tests Positive for COVID-19
Isolation
- Students, teachers, and employees should not go to school if they are sick (as with any illness, such as those listed above)
Symptoms of COVID-19
Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. If students, teachers, or employees have any of the 6 symptoms of COVID-19, which make them eligible for testing, they should call a healthcare provider and get tested for COVID-19, even if the symptom is mild.
Individuals with symptoms must isolate by staying at home (except to get medical care).
- Fever (100.4 or higher)
- Cough
- Shortness of breath
- Decrease in sense of smell or taste
- Sore throat
- Muscle aches and pains
Should My Child Get Tested for COVID-19?
- Having any of the 6 symptoms listed above makes an individual eligible for testing
- Call a doctor or healthcare provider for advice
- Testing locations can be found at https://coronavirus.utah.gov/testing-locations
- Most people will not have to pay for COVID-19 testing. You should not be asked for payment when you go to a testing location.
- If you are uninsured and do not qualify for the Medicaid option, there are locations that will provide testing free of charge. If you need help finding a location that provides free testing, please call the Utah Coronavirus Hotline at 1-800-456-7707 or use the chat feature on the coronavirus.utah.gov website.
If a Student, Teacher, or Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19
- The health department will notify the school if a student, teacher, or employee at the school tested positive for COVID-19.
- The individual will not be allowed to go to school until the health department has cleared them from isolation.
- Isolation will be required for at least 10 days since first getting sick or testing positive. Individuals must also isolate until they are fever-free for 24 hours (without the use of medicine to lower the fever).
- They should stay home and away from other people as much as possible.
- Anyone who was in close contact with the individual who tested positive for COVID-19 (two days before they had symptoms or tested positive) should quarantine for 14 days.
- The school's COVID-19 point of contact (POC) will work with the health department on contact tracing. The POC will notify eligible students, parents, teachers, and employees if they were exposed to someone on campus who tested positive for COVID-19. They will also notify anyone who is at higher risk if they were exposed.
- The health department will notify the school's POC when a student, teacher, or employee has finished their isolation and can return to school or work.
- The school will work closely with the CDC and the Bear River Health Department to determine the best course for moving forward if individuals on campus test positive for COVID-19.
If Someone at Home Tests Positive for COVID-19
- If a student, teacher, or employee lives with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, they will not be able to go to school during their 14-day quarantine
- Everyone at home should quarantine for 14 days, even if they don't get sick (and even if they test negative)
Isolation
- If an individual has symptoms of COVID-19 or tested positive, they are to stay at home (isolate) except to get medical care.
- If an individual tests positive for COVID-19, they must isolate until they are fever-free for 24 hours (without medicine) and until it has been at least 10 days since they first got sick or tested positive.
Quarantine
- Quarantine is for people who may have been exposed to COVID-19 (through close contact exposure), but aren't sick yet. These quarantine guidelines apply regardless of where the exposure happened -- whether at school or away from campus.
- Students, teachers, and employees who are exposed to COVID-19 must quarantine at home for 14 days from the last date of exposure to the person who tested positive.
- These individuals should not go to work, school, extracurricular activities, religious services, family gatherings, or other activities. If they have to leave their home for essential items like groceries or to seek medical care, they need to take extra safety precautions.
- An individual's quarantine will end at the same time of day that the quarantine began. If a quarantine started at noon on Day 1, the first full day of quarantine won't end until noon on Day 2. Quarantine would eventually end at noon after 14 twenty-four hour periods.
- This keeps individuals away from others so they don't infect someone else without knowing it (since symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure).
- If an individual gets sick or has symptoms of COVID-19 while on quarantine, they should self-isolate and call a healthcare provider right away.
- Even if the individual never gets sick or tests negative during this time, they must finish the 14-day quarantine.
- If your student ends up being at home in quarantine at any point during the year, they will have the option to temporarily transition to at-home distance learning (where they can view classroom instruction via a live-stream online).