Should COVID-positive students stay at home from school? Local school districts must decide
Updated:
July 22, 2021 10:44 pm
Do COVID-positive students need to stay at home? Local school district decide
CONROE, Texas – Some parents have questions and concerns about the Conroe Independent School District’s plan for students to return to class for the upcoming school year.
During Tuesday’s board meeting, an administrator said students who test positive for COVID-19 should stay home and isolate but the district would not prohibit them from coming in either.
“Our hope is that people use personal responsibility to do what’s right,” the administrator said.
Prior to hearing Green s update on the incentive plan, trustees unanimously approved a resolution presented by board President Skeeter Hubert asking that a new vaccine eligibility group be created for teachers and district employees to give them priority after the existing Phase 1A and 1B sections focused on frontline workers, those over 65, and those with underlying health conditions. This entire time, I’ve been hearing our leaders, nationally and through the state, call our teachers heroes . but yet, when the vaccine comes out, you’ve got to wait in line like everybody else, Hubert said. I’m not trying to be critical, but it bothered me, and it bothered us as a board that there was no action behind the words that were being provided.