Preston County Schools’ current COVID-19 protocols will remain in place through at least next month when the Board of Education will review them.
“To do anything differently than what we’re doing, I think is pretty much just a waste of time,” Board President Jack Keim said at Monday’s meeting.
Keim said he feels that by the end of the year, COVID could be treated like the common cold, which has been around forever without a cure.
“And I think we’re involved in the same sort of a situation,” Keim said, adding he isn’t a medical person and could be wrong.
The most recent guidelines from the state remind Keim of the ones when the flu was rampant about five years ago.
Board member Pam Feathers said the current plan is good but there will eventually be an after, so perhaps it’s time the board sits down to discuss next steps.
“So maybe as a board we need to decide what that looks like going forward, or even if we say we’re going to till the end of the year, but some kind of game plan,” she said.
Board member Bruce Huggins said he doesn’t think one can set a hard deadline but the topic should be revisited.
Preston County Schools mask on a school-by-school basis. The threshold for masking is a 2% positive rate or 7% quarantine rate. Each Friday, the school system posts its COVID numbers, broken down by school, on its website. The COVID numbers chart also shows which schools will have a mask mandate the following week.
This week, only Rowlesburg School requires masks. Masking is also mandatory when riding a bus because of federal transportation mandates.
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