COVID-19 UPDATES & RESOURCES
OCS COVID-19 and Overall Health Policies
Safety and health are of prime importance for Our Community School.
For 2023-24, OCS has instituted a Health Policy to keep our community safe and healthy. There are many highly contagious respiratory illnesses in society, including COVID-19, the flu, RSV, etc. It is important that if anyone becomes infected while they are healing, we also do everything we can to stop/slow the spread in our community.
- If you feel sick or have any symptoms of COVID-19, we are asking students and staff to mask while indoors.
- We ask that those with symptoms of COVID-19 take a rapid Covid test. OCS has tests available for students and staff, please inquire at the school office.
- If positive, you will need to isolate for at least 5 days. Please call the school office immediately to report a positive case.
- Day 1 is the day after you test positive or the day after symptoms start, whichever is earlier.
- On Day 5, you should rapid test again to see if you are negative.
- You may come out of isolation on Day 6, but you must wear a mask when around others (indoors and outdoors) through the end of Day 10. This is true whether you test negative or not.
- If you are not well enough to wear a mask for the entirety of the day, you should stay home until well enough to do so.
- Those who are close contacts (near the positive case for at least 15 minutes during 24 hours within the 2 days before they were sick) will need to wear masks for the 10-day exposure period. OCS will be notifying classes and individuals that we know are close to those students.
- If there is a person in the home of a student or staff member who tests positive, that student or staff member may still come to school. They will need to wear a mask. Once the close contact begins to feel symptoms of COVID-19, they must stay home, isolate, and take a rapid test.