December 22, 2020
Dear RBS Families,
I wanted to let you know that, although we will be on vacation for the next 11 days, you will still need to inform me if your child tests positive or is contact traced and needs to quarantine during vacation. The school is required to report student and staff cases to the state during vacation as well as provide students and staff members with their return dates.
Also, we will have to conduct contact tracing for all positive cases that occur on or before December 25th. Contact tracing goes back 48 hours from the onset of symptoms or testing date, whichever is first. Therefore, if a student shows symptoms or is tested on the 24th or 25th, we would have to go back to the 22nd or 23rd for contact tracing in school. If that is the case, I'm sorry to say that Michele Ouellette (nurse) and/or I will have to make calls to staff and families on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day because we can't have anyone who's been contact traced unknowingly going about the community or getting together with family members when they should be quarantined. Please let me apologize ahead of time if either of us has to reach out to you on Christmas Eve or Day. We promise to keep it as brief as possible!
Please use THIS FORM to report if your child has tested positive.
Please use THIS FORM to report if your child has been contact traced.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Molly McCarthy
