Key News for Families
March 25, 2021
COVID-19 Updates
If your child has COVID-19 symptoms, please keep them home. Students with COVID-19 symptoms must remain home unless they receive a negative result from a regular COVID-19 test (known as a PCR test) or until the appropriate quarantine period has passed. Due to the uncertainty of negative rapid COVID-19 tests, we are not able to accept those results to allow symptomatic students to return to school -- even if it is accompanied by a physician’s note. Exceptions are made when physicians diagnose students with other illnesses like strep throat, influenza, etc.
With everyone's help, we can have a safe, healthy, and successful conclusion to our school year.
Upcoming School Board Election
MHS Athletics Booster Club Water Softener Salt Sale
Click here to learn more. Be sure to get your orders submitted by April 12!
Emergency Broadband Benefit
The Emergency Broadband Benefit is an FCC program to help households struggling to pay for internet service during the pandemic. This new benefit will connect eligible households to jobs, critical healthcare services, and virtual classrooms. The Emergency Broadband Benefit will provide a discount towards broadband service for eligible households. Eligible households can also receive a one-time discount of up to $100 to purchase a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet from participating providers if they contribute $10-$50 toward the purchase price.
The Emergency Broadband Benefit is limited to one monthly service discount and one device discount per household.
For more information, visit this website: https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandbenefit
To see if you qualify, visit this website: https://www.fcc.gov/lifeline-consumers
Southeastern Wisconsin Educator Recruitment Fair
This year's fair will be virtual and held on the Career Fair Plus platform. It will offer 1:1 video meetings and group meetings with schools and districts.
The fair is open to all education professionals, including teachers, administrative staff, pupil services, educational assistants, and those in the process of obtaining their license. Learn more, including participating schools/districts, vacancies, and how to sign up by visiting their website.
FOMA Heartfest Coming in April
MASD Mask Requirement Reminder
As reflected on our MASD COVID-19 Dashboard, student and staff cases and quarantines continue to be very low.
MASD will still continue to require students and staff to wear masks within schools, on buses, and during after school activities until further notice.
COVID-19 Information
Families are asked to review this important information which will help keep our students and staff healthy and our in-person schools open for learning:
COVID-19 Information and Reporting Email Address:
Families who need to communicate with our district nurses about COVID-19 related matters including reporting symptoms, sharing test results, or to ask questions should email us at covid19@masd.k12.wi.us. This new email address will allow for more efficient response times and tracking of all student related COVID-19 issues.
Students Awaiting Test Results Must Remain Home:
Families are reminded that students who have been tested for COVID-19 must remain home until their results are returned, even if they begin to feel better. If the results are negative, they can return to school with proof of the negative result unless they are already in quarantine due to a close contact.
Report All Positive Student and Household Cases:
Also, families are reminded that if your child or someone in their household tests positive for COVID-19, you must contact your child's health room or District Nurse Noel Menghe (covid19@masd.k12.wi.us or 262.363.6292 x27515). Contact tracing for all positive cases must be conducted and any delay in notifying the health room or district nurse could result in additional outbreaks or ill students.
We strongly recommend that families with household members awaiting COVID-19 test results keep their children home until they receive a negative test result. Many close contact quarantines have been avoided by families proactively keeping students who later tested positive home while waiting for a parent or sibling to receive their test results.
If an immediate family member is displaying COVID-19 symptoms and is tested, please strongly consider keeping your child home until the test results are received to help avoid quarantining other students.
Mask Use and Close Contact:
We believe that mask use is helping to limit the spread of COVID-19 in our district. While we have had some students and staff who have tested positive, the number of positives related to these cases has been very low thus far.
However, the Waukesha County Health Department still requires students or staff members who come into close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 to quarantine, regardless of mask use and physical barriers. Close contact is defined as being within six feet or less for 15 or more minutes.
Parents should be aware that a negative COVID test does not release a student from quarantine. It's important to note that our legal counsel and liability insurance carrier have made it clear that we need to follow our local health department's guidelines on quarantine procedures.
Assigned Seats on Bus:
Students riding the bus to or from school must sit in their assigned seats. Assigned seats assist us in contact tracing when there are positive cases and help us ensure the proper students are quarantined when necessary.
COVID-19 Quarantine Guidelines:
In late 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated guidelines for quarantine of those who were a close contact of someone who tested positive for COVID-19. The guidelines were approved by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and Waukesha County Public Health. As such, we will adopt these new guidelines:
A 14-day quarantine remains the safest option for close contacts of someone with COVID-19.
- An individual's official quarantine will be shortened to 10 days, provided the individual is asymptomatic and continues to monitor for symptoms for the full 14 days
If the quarantined individual receives a negative test result (PCR or antigen) that was collected on or after day 6 of quarantine, the quarantine may be shortened to a minimum of 7 days once our health team receives proof of the negative test result.
Please note: a positive test will result in a new isolation period of ten days.
You can find testing sites in Waukesha County at https://bit.ly/WaukeshaCoTesting.
Please note, this only applies to close contact quarantines. It does not change isolation periods for people who have tested positive for COVID-19.
Our district nurses are emailing families of students who have students in close contact quarantines with updated dates following this guidance. Families should check their email carefully for new letters. If you have not received a letter, email our health team at covid19@masd.k12.wi.us.
You can view Waukesha County’s new quarantine options by clicking here.
Substitute Teachers Needed
- Have you ever thought about teaching in a classroom?
- Has the pandemic caused you to want to get out of the house and interact with people?
- Do you want to earn some extra money?
- Do you enjoy working with students?
It is now easier than ever to become a substitute teacher. A three year short term sub license is available for applicants who hold an associate degree or higher from an accredited college or university and who has successfully completed an approved substitute training program, but has not completed a state-approved educator preparation program.
Training opportunities are currently available through Stedi.com, CESA 1, or CESA 2.
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Important Links
District Website | Pandemic Information
School Websites:
Big Bend | Clarendon Avenue | Eagleville | Prairie View | Rolling Hills | Section |
Park View Middle School | Mukwonago High School
Other Important Links:
Mukwonago Education Foundation | MASD Community Education | Lunch Menus |
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Mukwonago Area School District
Email: helpdesk@masd.k12.wi.us
Website: www.masd.k12.wi.us
Location: 385 East Veterans Way, Mukwonago, WI, USA
Phone: 262.363.6300
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