Thanksgiving Break Guidelines
Thanksgiving holiday is a long awaited time in which families look forward to spending time with together. And Thanksgiving weekend is a notoriously busy time for travelers. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to stir personal safety concerns and force travel restrictions and quarantine mandates, we ask you to please think carefully about how you will gather this year.
Our primary goal at the school is to minimize the impact of student/family high risk activity and travel on the community spread of COVID-19. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) strongly discourages traveling for the holiday to curb the spread of COVID-19. Staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others. However, the final decision rests upon you. If you must travel, be informed of the risks involved.
Per CDC, the risk of COVID-19 spreading at events and gatherings increases as follows:
Lowest risk: Virtual-only activities, events, and gatherings.
More risk: Smaller outdoor and in-person gatherings in which individuals from different households remain spaced at least 6 feet apart, wear masks, do not share objects, and come from the same local area (e.g., community, town, city, or county).
Higher risk: Medium-sized in-person gatherings that are adapted to allow individuals to remain spaced at least 6 feet apart and with attendees coming from outside the local area.
Highest risk: Large in-person gatherings where it is difficult for individuals to remain spaced at least 6 feet apart and attendees travel from outside the local area.
If during the Thanksgiving holiday you participate in higher risk activities or think that you may have been exposed during your celebration, please take extra precautions for 14 days after the event to protect others at school. Please do not send your child(ren) to school until you have satisfied the suggested quarantine.
As a reminder, the following are considered high risk activities
specifically during Thanksgiving:
- Going shopping in crowded stores just before, on, or after Thanksgiving
- Participating or being a spectator at a crowded event
- Attending crowded parades
- Attending large indoor gatherings with people from outside of your household.
