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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]September 3rd update at 6:34 from the Acting Superintendent[/b]

UPDATED QUARANTINE GUIDANCE FOR UNVACCINATED STUDENTS
Under the direction of the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services and in alignment with the Maryland State Department of Health and the Maryland State Department of Education, MCPS is implementing the following updated guidelines regarding the quarantine of unvaccinated students:

Unvaccinated students who have been in close contact with an individual who is displaying any single symptom of COVID-19 will be sent home.
Students who are sent home because they have been in close contact with an individual with symptoms may return if the individual with symptoms tests negative, or has an alternate diagnosis from a medical provider.
In the absence of a negative COVID-19 test or alternate medical diagnosis of that individual, all students who were in close contact with the individual are required to quarantine for 10 days.
As a result of this guidance from the county, MCPS will quarantine:

An individual who tests positive
Those who are unvaccinated and in close contact to an individual who tests positive or has one or more COVID-19 symptoms 
An individual with one or more COVID-19 symptoms
Close contact is:

Being 3 feet or less away in the classroom for 15 or more minutes during a 24-hour period, regardless of mask use.
Being 6 feet or less away while eating or outdoors for 15 minutes or more during a 24-hour period, regardless of mask use. 
COVID-19 symptoms include:

Fever of 100.4 degrees or higher
Sore throat
Cough
Difficulty breathing
Diarrhea or vomiting
New onset of severe headache
New onset of loss of taste or smell

If a Student is Quarantined MCPS will minimize learning disruption when students are in isolation or quarantine. At the elementary level, individual students in isolation or quarantine will receive live, virtual instruction from a teacher on a separate schedule from their peers; if an entire class is in quarantine, the teacher will provide virtual instruction for the class. At the secondary level, students in isolation or quarantine will have opportunities to connect with their teachers for live check-ins.

[b]Shouldn't be a problem for HS where everyone has had the opportunity to get the vaccine.  Subjective determination (was there close contact?) could be a problem for MS and ES students who can't get the vaccine yet.[/b]
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If close contact was actually applied that way, this wouldn't nearly be at tragic as what's happening and being discussed here. But they're effectively considering close contact to be anybody who has driven by the school in the past few years.[/quote]

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