001hello chris cooper superintendent clearwater schools here with a brief update it's been a quite a while since i've done one of these so this one will be very short just a couple of things i want to mention first of all welcome to the year 2022. can't believe we're here those of us that can remember y2k when all our computers were going to quit working and and we might the planet might go away all those things we were worried about probably can't even imagine the things we've been through in 2020 and 2021 but 2022 is going to be an outstanding year especially in clearwater kansas we will be back in full swing tomorrow january 4th all classes all activities we're ready to roll we have a lot of stuff coming up uh quickly lots of winter
002activities and going on i did want to mention covet unfortunately we're still talking about that a year and almost two years into this thing i'm sure you've seen a lot of uh information out about omicron changes in cdc guidance and all those things so just a brief clarification on a couple of things um first of all we're uh we haven't made any significant changes we're business as usual sent out an update after the last board meeting that um we will as always follow county and state health orders so some of those orders are around isolation there are currently no orders about quarantine of close contacts so that's our plan to com to comply with any orders that come out but there aren't uh we won't be uh quarantining close contacts to uh covered positive cases
003the cdc guidance is a little more confusing i've received some information today from the sedgwick county health department trying to clarify if they're giving guidance or an order i believe it's guidance but we looks like we will be able to adapt and shorten the isolation period for folks who are coveted positive so my best understanding and explanation of that is five days from from when you tested positive and 24 hours symptom free at least 24 hours symptom free so we'll be working through that managing that uh our school nurses will be helping folks who have students who might have coven manage that and and navigate through that the other there's also a lot of other junk going around around that's making people sick and personally we had that hit our house and the cooper house
004we all had something that wasn't very fun but wasn't covered we took the tests and but we still don't want other people to have it so in general we're just i'm just asking that if you're sick if you're students sick have them stay home we've always had the policy that you'd be 24 hours fever free to attend school that's just to keep everybody well and safe so that's really the primary reason to send this out today is just asking everyone to stay home if you're not feeling well keep students home if they're sick and that can help us continue to stay in school the one thing we don't want to have is a lot of students out a lot of staff out we might be short on sub bus drivers or substitute teachers puts us
005in a real struggle to continue to provide the high quality education that that we want to when we're short on staff so that's really all i have for today it's going to be a great 2022 it's not used to saying that yet i wrote it for the first time today but i'm excited about things to come this year that's all i have for today have a great one you