Update on COVID-19

As we prepare to return to campus on Tuesday, January 5, we want to provide a couple of reminders and tips to ensure that students, faculty, and staff stay healthy and safe while at school.

• Cloth face coverings are required for all students, faculty, and staff at the school. In alignment requirements at the county and state level, Legacy continues to require cloth face coverings for all students, faculty, and staff. If your child needs a reasonable accommodation, please contact the principal.  The school will provide a face covering for any student who does not have one.  Failure to comply with the face covering requirement will result in exclusion from in-person learning.
• All students and employees must take their temperature and screen for COVID/flu-like symptoms each morning before reporting to the school. Anyone with a temperature of 100.4 or higher and/or any other symptom should refrain from coming to the school building. Students may access their education via Schoology while symptomatic, if desired.  Students may return to in-person learning 10 days after becoming symptomatic, provided the symptoms have resolved.  Alternatively, students may obtain a negative COVID-19 test and return to school sooner than 10 days as long as the symptoms have resolved.
• Individuals who test positive for COVID-19 will be required to isolate at home for 10 days from the date of the positive test. After a 10 day isolation, students may return to in-person learning, provided that symptoms have resolved. A negative test is not required to return to the campus, and a negative test will not reduce the duration of isolation.  If well enough to do so, students in home isolation may access school online via the Schoology platform.
• Individuals exhibiting symptoms associated with COVID-19 will be excluded from in-person attendance for 10 days. Students exhibiting symptoms while on campus will be isolated from others and supervised by staff until parents pick them up from school. We ask that parents pick their children up within one hour of notification or communicate any extenuating circumstances to the school.  If we are unable to contact you, we will begin contacting your emergency contacts.
• Students who are identified as close contacts of someone who tested positive for COVID-19 will be required to quarantine at home. In alignment with the county’s quarantine guidance, students who are identified as close contacts must quarantine at home for 14 days. There are conditional options to shorten the duration of quarantine. If a student does not exhibit any symptoms after exposure, quarantine may be reduced to 10 days. If a student obtains a negative COVID-19 test result during quarantine and remains symptom-free, quarantine may be reduced to 7 days.  Online learning via Schoology will be available for students in quarantine so that they may continue accessing school.
• Students are encouraged to come to school with the supplies necessary to be safe and healthy. Coming to school each morning with a cloth face covering and a refillable water bottle allows students to remain in class and reduce risk of exposure by traveling to the health office or front office for supplies. The school will continue to offer disposable masks and water bottles for students who forget theirs at home, but leaving class for these supplies interrupts learning and has the potential to expose students to individuals outside of their classroom cohort.

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out directly to the principal of your campus.