KEARNS Students from some 20 Kearns High School families who did not undergo COVID-19 testing during the Test to Stay pilot conducted earlier this week were turned away from the school Wednesday morning, Granite School District officials confirmed.
The school, in conjunction with the Utah Department of Health and the Salt Lake County Health Department, tested 1,080 students and staff on Monday and Tuesday, about 70% of the student body. Eleven people tested positive and were instructed to isolate at home.
The school district notified families in advance by multiple emails, texts and telephone calls that students who declined testing or parents or guardians who could not be reached to ask for their consent for the pilot would not be admitted to the school starting Wednesday or until they could present a negative test result, said Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley.