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O'HARE Labs Testing District 6 has partnered with O'HARE labs to offer weekly testing to all students. A blast has been sent to all families with the O'HARE Labs flyer. Please use the QR code on this flyer to sign up for this FREE weekly testing. Testing is done by a cheek swab, at home under parental supervision, and then returned to school with the student on Monday to be collected by O'HARE labs for processing. This test is a PCR test so results will take 1-3 days to receive. Once the test is resulted, parents can assess the results on a secure portal. The BinaxNOw rapid testing will still be offered at school for symptomatic students who have a waiver on file. | Quarantine, Isolation, and Remote LearningStudents with a positive COVID-19 test will need to isolate for 10 days from the date of their test or onset of symptoms. For students who are a close contact outside of the school setting, they will need to complete a 10 day quarantine from their last exposure to the positive person. For households with a positive member, if the student cannot isolate from the positive person, their quarantine will be 10 days after the positive person's 10 days. For students that are quarantined or in isolation, remote learning will be provided until they are able to return to in-person learning. Your student's teacher can provide you more information on how to access the learning materials for remote learning. Isolate: separates sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick. Quarantine: separates and restricts the movement of sick people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick. | Test-To-Stay For students that have been determined to be a close contact in the school setting only, D6 offers Test-To-Stay. In this program a student who is a close contact, at school only, can continue attending to school if they have no COVID like symptoms and have a BinaxNow waiver on file. They will need a COVID-19 test on day 1, 3, 5, and 7. If one of those days falls on a non-attendance day, then the parent/guardian is responsible for getting their student tested and turning those results into the building nurse. Students who do not turn in test results for non-attendance days or do not test at school on day 1, 3, 5, or 7, will not be permitted to continue participating in TTS. If a student arrives to school without the required results, they will be sent home and will be required to finish the remaining days of the quarantine. These requirements have been set by the LCHD. We cannot offer any flexibility in the requirements. |
O'HARE Labs Testing
Testing is done by a cheek swab, at home under parental supervision, and then returned to school with the student on Monday to be collected by O'HARE labs for processing.
This test is a PCR test so results will take 1-3 days to receive. Once the test is resulted, parents can assess the results on a secure portal.
The BinaxNOw rapid testing will still be offered at school for symptomatic students who have a waiver on file.
Quarantine, Isolation, and Remote Learning
Students with a positive COVID-19 test will need to isolate for 10 days from the date of their test or onset of symptoms.
For students who are a close contact outside of the school setting, they will need to complete a 10 day quarantine from their last exposure to the positive person.
For households with a positive member, if the student cannot isolate from the positive person, their quarantine will be 10 days after the positive person's 10 days.
For students that are quarantined or in isolation, remote learning will be provided until they are able to return to in-person learning. Your student's teacher can provide you more information on how to access the learning materials for remote learning.
Isolate: separates sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick.
Quarantine: separates and restricts the movement of sick people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.
Test-To-Stay
In this program a student who is a close contact, at school only, can continue attending to school if they have no COVID like symptoms and have a BinaxNow waiver on file.
They will need a COVID-19 test on day 1, 3, 5, and 7. If one of those days falls on a non-attendance day, then the parent/guardian is responsible for getting their student tested and turning those results into the building nurse.
Students who do not turn in test results for non-attendance days or do not test at school on day 1, 3, 5, or 7, will not be permitted to continue participating in TTS. If a student arrives to school without the required results, they will be sent home and will be required to finish the remaining days of the quarantine.
These requirements have been set by the LCHD. We cannot offer any flexibility in the requirements.
Cheri Sinkovec BSN RN
