001hello chris cooper here superintendent of clearwater schools with a brief update it's been a great week we've kind of hit our stride here with school going and lots of good things going on i'll get to a coveted update and then we'll get to some real work of education so currently like i said we've had a good week with covet as well we've had three we currently have three students out that are covered positive we have one staff out who's covered positive and we have one class in mass with our protocol that we've been using we have been doing daily tests we've done over 150 daily tests for students who are close contacts at school to keep those students in school so we've generated a lot of student contact days by being able to do that
002in the mornings with specific students we currently have 15 students out for some sort of quarantine and that would be 11 that are household close contacts so if you are in a house that has a coveted positive we're not allowed to do the daily test to keep you in school so you do have to be out on quarantine so that's 11 of our 15 and then we have four students out with some sort of covet-like sys symptoms i mentioned testing just to review we unless we call you um you're not eligible for uh covered testing to remain in school so that would be just for students who are close contacts at school that we can do the daily testing and keep in school if that number exceeds 50 or so students we'll probably have to
003look at some other means to try to maintain kids in school so overall people might be asking what is our process so um if we once we have a covered positive student we do contact racing we look at those numbers we contact all of those parents if it's in a pre-k 3 class our practice has been to mask that class throughout the rest of that quarantine period they actually go to elementary east a different playground to play they have typically isolated bathrooms and things so we try to separate in case there's any further cases there we're limiting the spread of that initial case at the middle and high school level it's a little different in that we tried a daily test but again once that number if that number reaches a number that we can't
004test then we would have to look at mass considerations there to keep students in school throughout that quarantine period so i mentioned getting to the work of education it's been a great week this week for other reasons as well the board on monday night started looking at community input from a couple of long-range planning meetings so we're in the process of building a five to seven year plan for our district really deciding what's important and what are we going to focus our energy funds and resources towards the other thing that's happened in the last couple of weeks is we have screened every student k through 12 in reading to see if there's any deficits we're also working on math not sure where exactly that's at in the process we have other people working on that
005but we're working to make sure that every student has the skills they need to be successful at whatever level they're at we also have homecoming this week you may have seen some toilet paper that's not necessarily a school sponsored event but if there were issues with that feel free to reach out to us we'll try to keep those from happening in the future we had a pep rally a bonfire last night over at the high school we have a pep rally this afternoon with lots of people coming there so it's fun to have those normal activities back in place so as we look forward to next week back to coba i'll just encourage people to make sure that we don't send six students students who are sick to school i think that's helped us get
006some of our numbers down from where they were at the first of the year so reach out to the nurses the principals to me we'll try to walk you through the process if you have any coffee covered questions just a reminder next friday there is no school we've got fall fest coming up and on friday we will have a teacher in service day no students at school on friday september 24th as i always like to end um clearwater is a great place i feel blessed to be here in my second year as superintendent and i again want to encourage us to all come together when challenges face us and not divide apart unfortunately i've seen some other communities very near to us have a lot of division and a lot of things that they're shouldn't
007be having to deal with because we can't all come together and overcome anything that that comes our way so as i always say just assume positive intent everybody's doing the darn best that they can at the moment we'll assume the same of everybody we encounter that's all i have for today come out to the homecoming game tonight at football at our football stadium if you're able to we'd love to see you there take care you