Face Covering Decision
McKenzie Families,

Thank you for your continued patience as we navigated the new announcements for OHA and ODE regarding indoor masking.

McKenzie School District will transition the use of face coverings to highly recommended but not required on our campus and buses beginning Monday, March 14th.

A combination of favorable local COVID-19 conditions as well as stakeholder feedback led the district to make this decision at this time. Lane County is now in the Moderate category according to the CDC’s Community Levels.

An overwhelming majority of students, staff and community members favored the transition to face coverings being highly recommended but not required at McKenzie School District.

When masks become optional on campus, some individuals will need or want to continue to wear them. As a community of people who care for each other, let's continue to support our individual choices. There are many reasons people may choose to wear or not wear masks.We will also work with Lane County Public Health to provide opportunities for our community to get vaccinated.  

As with any communicable disease, please continue to keep your students home when they are not feeling well, including demonstrating any of these symptoms.

Additional guidelines and testing opportunities:

  • We will notify families regarding exposures to positive cases in cohort groups.
  • We will also continue to provide on-campus testing for symptomatic students and staff.
  • The University of Oregon continues to provide weekly screening testing for students whose families sign them up and you can see more on that service if you scroll further down in this email.
  • At home, rapid tests will be sent home with students this week.

There have been many changes over the last two years. As always, we will continue to work with Lane County Public Health and the Oregon Health Authority to make adjustments to our pandemic response as needed should conditions warrant a return of face coverings or other mitigation strategies.

McKenzie is joining the other districts in Lane County following OHA’s guidance regarding face coverings with this decision.

Please reach out if you have any additional questions.

Lane Tompkins,
Superintendent
Weekly COVID Screenings

In partnership with the University of Oregon, we are offering weekly covid screening testing for interested families.

Please follow the link to learn more. 
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