From the attendance desk….
Did you know?
• Students should miss no more than 9 days of school each year to stay engaged, successful and on track to graduation.
• Frequent absences can be a sign that a student is losing interest in school, struggling with school work, or facing some other difficulty.
• By 9th grade, attendance is a better predictor of graduation rates than 8th grade test scores.
• Missing 10%, or 2 days of school a month, over the course of the school year, can drastically affect a student’s academic success.
What can you do?
• Talk about the importance of showing up to school every day.
• Help your children maintain daily routines, such as finishing homework and getting a good night’s sleep.
• If your children must stay home because they are sick, make sure they have asked teachers for resources and materials to make up for the missed learning time in the classroom. Help your teen stay engaged.
• Monitor your child’s academic progress and seek help from teachers or tutors when necessary. Make sure teachers know how to contact you.
• Stay on top of your child’s social contacts. Peer pressure can lead to skipping school, while students without many friends can feel isolated.
• Encourage your child to join meaningful after-school activities, including sports and clubs.
• Notice and support your children if they are showing signs of anxiety, such as headaches or stomach aches. Listen to their concerns, and if needed, ask school staff for help. Communicate with the school
• Know the school’s attendance policy.
• Check on your child’s attendance to be sure absences are not adding up.
• Seek help from school staff, other parents, or community agencies if you need support.
*Please remember to call our attendance line to excuse your students' absence when they are not at school otherwise it will be marked as unexcused and counted towards student truancy. When you call our attendance line please leave the name and date your student will be gone as well as the reason for their absence. Our attendance line number is 509-558-3801.
Falcon families,
Please see the included chart to help determine what to do if your child is experiencing symptoms of, has been exposed to, or has tested positive for COVID. Please call 558-3818 to report a positive test or a close contact to a positive COVID case.
COVID Symptom
COVID Protocols Per CVSD
Symptoms:
Cough
Loss of sense of taste and/or smell
Shortness of breath
Fatigue
Headache
Muscle or body aches
Sore throat
Congestion or runny nose
Nausea or vomiting
Diarrhea (defined as two or more loose stools in 24 hours
Fever (defined as subjective or 100.4 or higher)
Stay home for 24 hours. If symptoms are gone after 24 hours the student can return to school.
Symptoms lasting more than 24 hours:
If symptoms are improving-
Students need two Binax tests (24 hours apart from one another). Both tests need to be negative for students to return to school.
*No improvement of symptoms school will do a Curative COVID test. Student stays home while awaiting results.
Sibling rule
Household members of children with symptoms are to stay home until symptoms are confirmed to be unrelated to COVID-19.
COVID Tests are available at school. Please call 558-3800 or reach out to your health care provider if you would prefer to test elsewhere.
Student Positive Case
Students will be on a 10 day quarantine from the onset of symptoms or positive COVID Test.
Close Contact (outside of school and outside of the household)
Any student that is a “close contact” will need to quarantine for 10 days even if a negative test is received.
*Vaccination status may reduce quarantine.
Close Contact (identified at school)
Students identified as a close contact in school will be given 2 COVID tests (with parent permission).
The first test is a Binax rapid test. If negative, students can return to the classroom.
3-5 days later a Curative COVID test is given and, if negative, the student is out of the close contact category.
Living with a Positive COVID case in the home-
20 day quarantine – If a student develops symptoms and tests positive the 20 day would move to 10 days from symptom onset OR positive test.
*Vaccination status may reduce or eliminate quarantine.
