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Timestamp Please share your question or concern. Your student's school (s) or Do you have any ideas or suggestions for how you think we can the school where you work address this concern? If the school is closed for a number of days, will the Classified Staff get paid? if not, under this case are we able to claim unemployment. 3/3/2020 14:46:02 What about our FIT and At Risk Students for food? A parent has notified us that the child is being pulled from school (has IEP) due to Coronavirus. Is there language I should use and contacting the parent? Provide standard language/response for parents pulling students and 3/4/2020 9:06:55 how should we mark the attendance? (medical?) The aerosol cleaner that a lot of our custodians use and like is just a cleaner and not a disinfectant. (Reported to Hatton by a dray driver). Can we please direct custodians which products they can use from the CDC list and what procedures they need to use? 3/4/2020 10:48:56 from parent - What is the district doing to prepare? Parent offered to help. I referred parent to Supt. blog. This request came on Sunday, 3/1 before 3/4/2020 13:29:12 parent emails went out. from parent - Parent asked - Does the school allow students to wash hands before lunch with soap and water, not just hand sanitizer? I answered that we do allow them to stop by the bathroom before entering the lunch room. Rattlesnake is also creating a hand washing video to show school-wide as part of the Principal Monday Message. Wellness team consulted for the video and identified talking points for 3/4/2020 13:43:12 the message. Question from APHP via Ginny Haines Her current answer to APHP: : There are currently no plans for MCPS to From: Karen Deden <[email protected]> be shut down. To date there are no confirmed cases in the state. The Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2020 8:18 AM district has a team that is working on how we will respond if/when the To: Virginia J. Haines <[email protected]> time comes. Cc: Aytes, Francesca <[email protected]>; Eckholm, Kristin E <[email protected]> Subject: re: APHP and the Coronavirus Ginny, 4/6/2020 I am wondering about the protocol if MCPS shuts down, what you would like Rachel and I to do at APHP? Concern about lack of hot water in sinks in schools This was an email sent to Rob 3/5/2020 10:57:29 It would be helpful if students are directed to wash hands before they eat lunch This was an email sent to parents 3/5/2020 10:58:24 Language we use for parents - we should have used CDC language (stay home when you are sick) Question submitted to Rob via email 3/5/2020 10:59:00 Came in over email from a Paxson parent: As a parent of a Paxson student, I wanted to let you know that as you and a team develop a Coronavirus response plan, this is what I I responded and told her that we had already taken steps in this would like to see included (and was not mentioned in the email): direction and it was part of our response plan. 1) Schools to take additional cleaning and disinfecting measures for highly-utilized surfaces (The Missoula YMCA is already doing this - so should MCPS) 2) Students to have mandatory hand washing times, such as upon school arrival and before school breakfast, lunch, and snack. (Parents and teachers can tell students to wash hands but it needs to be enforced) Ideally, these measures would be put in place BEFORE students begin to be diagnosed with Coronavirus in the coming weeks. 3/5/2020 22:05:06 Thanks for you time, How will we serve our most intensive students such as students within an Extended Resource Program if we were to need to move to a different modality of a classroom? Possibly home visits? But in doing so, this still causes risk for exposure? 3/6/2020 9:17:46 This email came to Rob from Parent: Rob responded and explained we will not be closing schools - not Hi Rob, advised to do so at this time by Public Health. Advice could change, but we likely won't make a decision about this issue before spring break. I really appreciate the message you sent out concerning the COVID-19 outbreak. I am curious if you have considered shutting down the schools after spring break for a week or two due to the fact that many people will be traveling and potentially bringing it back into the schools. I would like to know that the schools are being proactive instead of reactive concerning this virus. It is important to acknowledge that folks could consider extending their travels if they realize that school will be closed after spring break. Thus, it will be important to alert them just before the school is back in session. I realize that this is a concern for folks who do not have child care; however, this will be an issue no matter what, as the virus will come eventually. Again, I think it is important to be proactive instead of reactive, and with Spring Break on the horizon, it seems like a perfect time to clean the school and keep kids home. At my office, we are being asked to stay home with any symptoms, but we are also proactively working from home. My husbands office closed completely and has all employees working from home. Colleagues and spouses are being asked to stay home after Spring Break travel for up to two weeks. Thank you for considering this option and addressing my concern as a community member and a parent with a compromised immune system. 3/6/2020 10:28:00 At Rattlesnake school our staff bathrooms do not have hot water most of the time. It takes FOREVER to get hot water down the pipe to the sink. We wash with cold water. no ideas 3/6/2020 13:55:09 3/6/2020 13:56:32 Is hand sanitizer enough ? Classes come off the playground and go in to eat lunch. Wash hands if needed, or is the hand sanitizer the solution. Should schools get closed down: I know Dave Rott has all the answers to these questions. 1) How will hourly employees be treated in regard to wages 2) Will MCPS continue its contribution to our health insurance premium if we are off work 3) Will we be forced to use our sick leave 4) If we don't HAVE sick leave available, are we in an unpaid status 5) Will we be eligible for unemployment if a shut down goes for an extended period of time. 6) For those that have a compromised immune system (like me) do we need to have a doctor verify that compromise and allow us to be off should there be a case diagnosed in either MCPS or directly in our building 7) If our school or district wide closings occur, will ALL employees be off work or will it be done based on who works 'inside' a building (close contact with others); in other words 3/8/2020 14:33:33 will it only be staff that work directly with kids that get sent home and 12-monthers such as custodial, grounds, etc. be expected to come to work. Recvd this email on March 8 appreciate your planning for digital options that would allow students to Some of the statements in your latest email and on the website are concerning to me as a parent. We should not take comfort nor have confidence in the statement that there continue their education from home if they are ill or isolated from are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state of Montana. It is very likely that COVID-19 is already present undetected in Missoula. If not, we can be certain that it will be school. Please also consider the following as long as schools remain open: circulating in the community very soon. The statement on the website regarding "considerations for closing schools due to high numbers of ill staff and students or for deep cleaning" is deeply concerning. COVID-19 is a far more serious public health threat than other, well-known illnesses that might prompt school closure once a lot of people are -Revise guidance for medically fragile students, and expand to include sick. Waiting to close schools until high numbers of staff and students are sick with COVID-19 would be disastrous for our community. COVID-19 is a public health threat of students who live with medically fragile family members. It is no longer historic magnitude. I urge you to implement aggressive measures now, including school closures, which could reduce the severity that this epidemic may have in Missoula. Early reasonable to assess the risk of spread as low, especially relative to the interventions have the best chance of reducing the overwhelming burden that our health system will likely experience. There is still time for proactive measures that could consequences for vulnerable people. greatly benefit our community and save lives, but the window of opportunity is closing fast. Actions that some will view as unnecessary or extreme today will look reasonable and obvious a few weeks from now. Please keep that in mind. -Suspend some rules, such as penalties for late papers or missed classes, or requirements for a doctor's note.