Dear Arlington families,
As we continue to experience the COVID-19 pandemic, Arlington Public Schools is asking parents and guardians of students to help keep our schools safe and healthy. Exposure to COVID-19 can result in student quarantines for extended periods of time or contracting the virus itself. Families can help reduce quarantines of students due to exposure or virus transmission by not sending their students to school when they have symptoms of COVID-19 or meet a specific condition.
We ask that you conduct a health and wellness check with your child each day before school and if they have any COVID-19 symptoms or the conditions listed below, that you keep them home from school. This is an at-home check and not linked to any sort of reporting.
COVID-19 symptoms include, in the past 10 days, any of the following not caused by another condition:
· Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
· Fever (100.4 or greater)
· New, unexplained cough
· Loss of taste or smell
· Sore throat
· Runny nose
· Muscle or body aches
· New onset of a severe headache, especially with fever
· Unusual fatigue
· Nausea or vomiting
· Diarrhea
If your student meets any of the conditions listed below, please keep your student out of school:
· Been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 14 days (please notify school nurse)
· Told by a public health or medical professional to self-monitor, self-isolate, or self-quarantine because of concerns about COVID-19 infection
· Had a positive COVID-19 test for active virus in the past 10 days (please notify school nurse)
· Awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test due to symptoms or exposure
We appreciate your partnership in keeping our schools safe and healthy for all members of the community.
Thank you.
Gary Sabol
Director of Communications
Arlington Public Schools