What Every Family Needs To Know

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As we begin to return to in-person learning, we are committed to practicing every precaution to keep our families safe and healthy.  This page is intended to provide a central hub of the latest information.

The modified quarantine and below language is from the CDPH Guidance updated from 8/2/2021 under safety measure #8. It is good to note that both parties need to have been masked and the exposure had to have happened in a school setting. Also, the students are allowed to attend school on modified quarantine, but not other activities like sports or other afterschool programs.

  1. Quarantine recommendations for unvaccinated students for exposures when both parties were wearing a mask, as required in K-12 indoor settings. These are adapted from the CDC K-12 guidance and CDC definition of a close contact.

a. When both parties were wearing a mask in any school setting in which students are supervised by school staff (including indoor or outdoor school settings and school buses, including on buses operated by public and private school systems), unvaccinated students who are close contacts (more than 15 minutes over a 24-hour period within 0-6 feet indoors) may undergo a modified quarantine as follows. They may continue to attend school for in-person instruction if they:

i. Are asymptomatic;
ii. Continue to appropriately mask, as required;
iii. Undergo at least twice weekly testing during the 10-day quarantine; and
iv. Continue to quarantine for all extracurricular activities at school, including sports, and activities within the community setting.

As directed by the Marin County Department of Health orders, masks are required at school in order to keep students, staff and the community safe from the spread of COVID.

With the increased spread of the COVID delta variant the Marin County Health Department has issued a mask order for schools.  We want to insure our students, staff and community are safe and we protect each other from community spread.

No.  As long as students are wearing masks they can remain at a regular distance from other students.

All students are encouraged to continue washing their hands regularly.  Every classroom is equipped with a certified hepa filter unit that removes 99.9% of viral particles from the air.  All classrooms and restrooms are cleaned daily following standard COVID disinfection guidelines.

Keep your child at home and contact your Doctor.  Arrange to get a COVID test.

Keep your child at home and follow the directions for care provided by your Doctor.  You will need a Doctor’s note clearing your child to return to school when they are well.

Vaccinating your child is a decision you make as a parent in consultation with your family doctor.  We strongly encourage all eligible students get vaccinated to protect them from COVID.

Quick Links

Video Walk-Through on Returning

Answers to common questions.

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Use these routes to get to class.

Enlaces Rápidos

We long to return to normal, but **normal led to this**. To avert the future pandemics we know are coming, we MUST grapple with all the ways normal failed us. We have to build something better.

Ed Yong, Science Journalist, The Atlantic

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