Covid-19
(May, 2022) Is CCSS vaccinating children at school?
No. Managing school through the COVID 19 pandemic was difficult for our school system and entire community, even though we kept our schools open for face-to-face instruction throughout the 2020-21 school year (schools reopened for face-to-face instruction September 8, 2020, following the initial state-mandated closure, and remained open).
As we saw across the U.S., the tensions of the pandemic led to strongly divided opinions in our country and community. Unfortunately this also led to false rumors which have sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately, been spread in our community about Coweta Schools, including those about COVID-19 vaccinations.
Coweta Schools have never held vaccination events or opportunities for students at schools or elsewhere. In March, 2021, Coweta Schools partnered with the Coweta County Health Department to offer COVID-19 vaccination to employees who wanted them when they first became widely available to the public. This step - providing voluntary vaccinations for our employees, only - also helped us end the general requirement of face masks in our schools at that time, in Spring, 2021. Otherwise, CCSS has not partnered with any entity to provide vaccinations or vaccination sites for our students. CCSS does not administer any vaccines to students at our schools or elsewhere.
(May, 2022) Does CCSS require students or teachers to wear face masks?
No. In consultation with the Georgia Department of Public Health, the school system ended any general face mask requirements in the spring of 2021, once voluntary vaccines became widely available to the public. During the spikes of the virus in our community at the end of summer, 2021 (the first spikes of the Omicron variant), some schools temporarily adopted masks if case rates rose significantly at that school, for a period of two to three weeks until school case rates declined. No Coweta school, however, has required face masks since September, 2021. With case rates remaining low in Coweta County, all Coweta schools have enjoyed normal operations for some time.
