April 14, 2021
Dear Parents,
I hope this message finds all of you safe and healthy. I wanted to take a quick minute and summarize the Health Department’s most recent Covid 19 protocols, in particular how they relate to the school environment.
As we head into the home stretch of the school year, it is evident that Covid 19 is starting to affect elementary school age students more dramatically than it has in the past. We will continue to follow guidance from the Ogle County Health Department.
Those protocols are as follows-
If your child is showing symptoms such as headache, fever, cough, shortness of breath, your child needs to quarantine for 14 days or provide evidence of a negative Covid test.
If your child has a positive Covid test, he/she must be quarantined for 10 days after they exhibit the last symptoms of Covid.
If the health department identifies your child as having close contact with someone who has tested positive, your child will have to quarantine for 14 days. The school will work closely with the health department to conduct contact tracing here at school. If the school identifies your child as a close contact, please know that the health department will contact you, as parents.
As a district, we have done a remarkable job of managing Covid related issues at school. I would like to personally thank everyone for their hard work and diligence; we could not have done this without true teamwork between home and school. This has been a most unusual year; hopefully we are turning the corner and we can continue to keep our students and staff safe and healthy.
Most sincerely,
Curt Rheingans