001good evening chris cooper superintendent of clearwater schools here with a brief update there's three things i'd like to cover tonight um one is our current coven 19 numbers for student and staff secondly i'd like to visit about the quarantine changes that the county adopted yesterday and then the last thing is the acacia high school activities association today changed their guidelines for spectators to allow parents some parents to come so first of all our current covered numbers we currently have six students out for being uh covered positive um so that's about a half a percent of our total student body overall we have 68 students who are out for any covered reason at this time whether it's because they have coveted like symptoms or they're positive or they're a close contact most of those are because
002of being a close contact with a positive outside of school on the staff side we have currently four staff members out for being positive for cobia 19 and as a total we have 10 staff members out the good news on the staff is tomorrow is the first day in a while but we have currently at this time on tuesday evening we have no sub teacher openings for wednesday so that's a good sign that all of our classes are covered i mentioned some changes in quarantine on the last update and those did come to pass so the sedgwick county quarantine you can go to their website and see the details but in general it's a 10 day quarantine now instead of 14 so 10 days after the last exposure to a to a known positive coveted
003case students and staff can return there is an allowance that if you get a pcr test which is the one that goes all the way up the cavity on day six or after you can return on day eight or after with a negative pcr test so that's not the rapid tests um that's the um the the main uh most reliable test the pcr test problem with that right now is there's more delay in in getting those results then would do much good so if you get a test on day six i'd think it would be unlikely that you would get the results before day ten so essentially we have a 10-day quarantine announced to the 14 if you're symptomatic asymptomatic so no symptoms so that's the big thing on quarantine changes and that's a lot
004of what has driven our numbers down a week ago we were about 140 students out and now we're 68 students out so that's that's been a big benefit to get kids back in class so the last thing i want to visit about the kansas high school activities association as most of you are probably aware voted to not have any spectators and today they have modified that slightly so limited spectators at acacia activities starting on december 10th through january 28th and you'll be getting more details from our athletic directors but essentially acacia rules now are going to allow two parents or guardians per family to attend events so as an example i have two daughters that are in cheer my family will receive only two people that can come in even though we have two participants
005so it's two per family and only parents or guardians uh not siblings and aunts and uncles and those things so very restricted um spectators allowed at keisha events like i said you'll be getting some more clarification on that uh that does start thursday and um just got off the phone with our high school athletic director heath elliott and he's working out the details and um you should receive some more communication we're not going to do the tickets like we the bracelets like we had done in the fall it'll be a pass gate situation where your name will be on the list if you're allowed to attend so as i mentioned our numbers aren't too bad we haven't seen a huge spike from thanksgiving six positive students is more than we want but i want to
006encourage everybody to continue to do the things that can keep those numbers low in our community our community zip code data and the data i just shared is updated on our website on the left side under covet 19 information menu that's all i have for this evening hope everybody has a opportunity to enjoy this unseasonably warm nice december weather we're having take care