Plan for When a Staff Member, Child or Visitor Become Sick

Section 25. Each school in the Bonsall Unified School District has developed a plan for responding when a staff member, child or visitor becomes ill.

a. The school's health clerk will be contacted immediately and students will be isolated as soon as possible. In most cases students will be isolated in the health clerk office, but in overflow situations or when there are multiple sick students, an isolation room will be utilized to separate anyone who exhibits symptoms of COVID-19.

b. The school will require any student or staff exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19 to wear a face covering and to wait in an isolation area until they can be transported home or to a healthcare facility, as soon as practicable.

i. The school will advise sick staff members and students not to return to school or work until they have met CDC criteria to discontinue home isolation, including 3 days with no fever, symptoms have improved and 10 days since symptoms first appeared.

c. Following check in and screening, a parent may pick up a student in isolation to take home or to a healthcare facility thus minimizing contact with others.

d. In some cases, 9-1-1 may necessarily be called to transport students or staff to a healthcare facility. The school will contact 9-1-1 without delay for serious illness including persistent pain or pressure in the chest, confusion, or bluish lips or face.

e. School staff will close off all areas used by any sick person and will not reopen the area for use before cleaning and disinfection. Whenever possible, school personnel will not begin cleaning and disinfecting procedures on the areas until 24 hours has passed to reduce the risk of exposure to custodial staff. Custodial staff has received training in the safe and correct application of disinfectants using personal protective equipment and ventilation recommended for cleaning. Disinfectant products are kept away from students at all times.

f. The school will ensure that students, including students with disabilities, have access to instruction when out of class, as required by federal and state law. Students will be placed in online virtual coursework comparable in rigor and expectations to the courses they were enrolled in physically at the time of the illness. Students on IEPs will continue to receive services, courses will continue online, and the district’s SPED department will be informed to determine other services which may be necessary while the student is taking online virtual coursework.

g. The Bonsall Unified School District will provide students, teachers, and staff from higher transmission areas opportunities for telework, online virtual learning, and other options as feasible to reduce travel to schools in lower transmission areas and vice versa, if advised by Public Health to do so.

h. The Bonsall Unified School District will offer distance learning based on the unique circumstances of each student who would be put at risk by an in-person instructional model. For example, students with a health condition, students with family members with a health condition, students who cohabitate or regularly interact with high-risk individuals, or are otherwise identified as “at-risk” by the parents or guardian, are students whose circumstances merit offering distance learning.

i. Implement the necessary processes and protocols when a school has an outbreak, in accordance with CDPH guidelines.

j. Investigate the COVID-19 illness and exposures and determine if any work-related factors could have contributed to risk of infection.

k. Update protocols as needed to prevent further cases. See the CDPH guidelines, Responding to COVID-19 in the Workplace, which are incorporated into this guidance and contain detailed recommendations for establishing a plan to identify cases, communicating with workers and other exposed persons, and conducting and assisting with contact tracing.