South Harrison Community School Corporation requires masks for all students and staff...
Before the Labor Day weekend, both South Harrison and North Harrison schools released updated covid guidance for Fall 2021.
Lanesville Community Schools last updated their covid guidance on July 29th, 2021 and that document can be found here.
South Harrison Community School Corporation
COVID Guidance - Fall 2021 (updated 9/2/21) Click here to view on corporation website
Masks are now REQUIRED for all students and staff when inside school buildings:
Masks
● Masks are required to be worn by all students and staff in the buildings and on school buses. ○ This includes after care programs within our buildings.
○ Masks must cover both the nose and mouth.
● Mask-free time will be provided when students are safely 6 feet apart.
Track and Isolate Positive Cases:
● Individuals who test positive for COVID-19 must stay home for 10 days following the onset of symptoms or a positive test result and must be 24 hours fever free without fever reducing medications and symptoms improved before returning from isolation.
Close Contacts and Quarantine Info:
● If masked, no quarantines for asymptomatic with self-monitoring.
○ Parents need to monitor students for symptoms and not send a symptomatic child to school. ○ We ask all staff to monitor students in the classroom as well.
● Students who do not follow the mask requirement or are repeatedly asked to put their mask back on, will be subject to being quarantined.
● Anywhere where a student can’t be masked, (lunch room, band, choir unless masked) close contacts would still result in quarantines.
● Vaccinated and asymptomatic students do not need to quarantine but must monitor for symptoms. ● When students and staff are masked, they will only be identified as a close contact if the individual is within 3 feet of a person who has tested positive for COVID-19 for a total of 15 minutes or more within a 24-hour period. Close contacts will be notified regardless of quarantine status.
● If not masked, the 6 ft quarantine rule applies.
Temporary Virtual Instruction for Students During Quarantine
Students who are quarantined due to COVID-19 will continue to receive instruction.
● K-6 students will receive daily math and ELA instruction through Google Meet.
● 7-12 students will log into Google Meet for each class period.
● Temporary Virtual Instruction is only available for students who are quarantined.
● Temporary Virtual Instruction will begin 24 hours after the quarantine begins.
Symptomatic Students or Staff
● May return with an alternate diagnosis from a medical professional, or
● May return with a negative test result (Rapid or PCR), or
● Quarantine for 10 days (see instructions for temporary virtual instruction).
○ AND must be symptom free (sudden onset of a cough, sudden shortness of breath, sudden onset of loss of taste and smell (not lingering)).
● Students who call in with COVID symptoms will be marked temporary virtual.
Cleaning
● Schools will continue with cleaning, sanitizing, and hygiene protocols.
Assigned Seating and Cohorting
● Students will have assigned seating in the classrooms and cafeteria.
Additional Considerations
● The superintendent of each district has the authority to adjust all guidelines in consultation with the Harrison County Health Department or the Indiana Department of Health.
● Currently, the best way to ensure a normal school environment for our students is for every eligible person to be vaccinated. A high vaccination rate offers the best protection against variants and the best opportunity for ending this pandemic.
NORTH HARRISON COMMUNTIY SCHOOl corporation
covid guidance for fall 2021 (updated 09/03/2021)
Masks are not required at North Harrison Community School Corporation:
Parents, Guardians, Students, and Staff:
Just a few quick notes to share with you as we head into the long weekend.
We have added a new link under the quick links on our home page for those who may be interested in subbing in any capacity. Just click on the "I Want to Sub" link, and you will find all of the information on how to serve as a substitute in our classrooms and cafeterias, as well as how to get your bus license.
We are going to make some changes to our dashboard next week to provide more information to everyone. We will be including quarantine information so that everyone can see the numbers impacted. It is very important to note that this will be all students out on quarantine due to contact tracing. This will not just be school related quarantines. This will include those that had family and other community based exposures. There are times when the outside contact tracing has impacted our overall quarantine numbers dramatically. If you have been following our dashboard you will see the numbers regarding our active Covid cases. The numbers for the high school have improved significantly. Once the individual can return to school we remove them from the count. We make every effort to update that information daily to reflect those that are returning and any new cases that have been reported to us.
We have shared in our updates that our main goal has been to return to full in-person instruction. We want to keep our schools open and our students in the classroom with their teachers. The message we have received is that our school community wants this as well. If you have positive cases in your family please reach out to our school nurses for guidance. If your kids are sick they have to stay home. We see cases that have involved sick kids coming to school that have led to others having to quarantine. These kind of exposures can reverse our progress in an instant.
We continue to strongly recommend masks for everyone in accordance with IDOH guidelines. If your child continues to consistently wear a mask at school, then it is unlikely that they will be contact traced. The governor also has issued additional guidance that removes the three foot rule if the students are masked. This will help keep more kids in school. In those instances, we will contact you if there is a potential exposure and work with you to monitor the situation. We will do our very best to manage the distancing and exposure minutes that the IDOH guidance outlines to accommodate everyone. Please note that our data continues to indicate that few if any of our mask wearers have come up positive.
We know that this has not been perfect. We appreciate your continued patience and understanding. Any future changes will be determined by the data that we see in our buildings. This is our new normal for the time being.
As a reminder, federal regulations for public transportation require face coverings on school buses for all students and staff. This federal mandate has been extended until January of 2022. This does greatly diminish the contact tracing on buses.
Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend.
Sincerely,
Dr. Lance Richards
Superintendent — North Harrison Community Schools