What to Do When A Student Gets Ill
Steps to Follow/Process
Will clarify for families what our expectations are.
Public Health will assist us.
A symptom list is forthcoming for parents and staff.
If students come to the office with symptoms....No expectation that siblings have to leave if no symptoms.
I would isolate the child, may take the child's temperature, will contact parents. Our expectation would be hat they take their child to the family doctor or to an assessment centre.
We are all in this together!
Dr or Public Health will assess. Parent follows the doctor's advice. Can return to school 24 hours after being symptom free.
If COVID positive, public health will contact the Board and the Board will contact me.
If a positive test, I will have to provide all of the contact tracing for the class, bus, visitor log, etc. Public Health will direct us.
If families refuse to go to an assessment centre - We say: If you are not willing to go, you cannot come back to the school for 14 days. If you send them back, we will isolate them again, call you again for pick up. I call Scot and he involves Public Health.
There is no way for us to know whether they actually got tested. We cannot ask for this information - privacy/confidentiality comes into play.
Public Health can do these checks and the appropriate follow up.
If we end up with a positive test, we will be taking all of our direction from Dr. Moore and his team.
If parents or the child says their test was negative, we take this at face value.
Let parents know that of course we want their child at school, but that this is unprecedented. It is a pandemic.
Same process for staff. Don't come back in until you've been assessed or are symptom free.