RIDGEFIELD, CT – Ridgefield Public Schools has replaced its COVID-19 protocols for the start of the school year, according to an article on the district’s website.
Students and staff can attend school if they have mild respiratory symptoms and have no known cases of COVID-19 in their homes. Those with those mild symptoms who haven’t been exposed to a positive case of COVID-19 on their home-at-home self-test before leaving for school every day have symptoms.
If the self-test result is negative, students or staff may be allowed to attend school if they feel well enough to participate. Fever above 100°F or feeling feverish does not show up in the user until the fever has gone away for at least 24 hours without the use of medication and check for COVID-19.
Mild symptoms of respiratory illness possibly include, but are not limited to, infrequent cough, congestion, runny nose, sore throat. Parents consult the school nurse if they have any questions about their child’s symptoms of mild respiratory illness.
Other adjustments to COVID-19 RPS protocols include:
● The district will no longer conduct distance learning for homeschoolers with a case of COVID-19, regardless of symptoms. ● Classroom contact tracing will no longer take a position ● While the district will continue to post COVID-19 cases in schools on its COVID tracker on the district’s website, no announcements will be made in the elegant or school point of view.
Masks will remain optional for students and if they remain asymptomatic. People exposed to COVID-19 at home who are COVID negative and do not have “symptoms of illness” will not be required to quarantine.
RPS will continue to enforce the “Back to School Protocol on Day 6:” Students who have tested positive for COVID will likely return to school on the sixth day after their positive result, as long as the person’s symptoms have improved. forward and the individual wears a mask until day 10 from the positive control.
Anyone who tests positive for COVID-19 will need to complete their isolation according to CDC’s new COVID-19 Isolation and Quarantine Calculator posted online through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
RPS will continue to use alcohol-based hand sanitizers in the district, as well as all ventilation and air purging protocols, as reported through the state Department of Public Health.
Test kits and PPE are available in all schools. Families can also order self-assessment kits online. Parents continue to report cases to the school nurse.
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