Twin Rivers administration consider themselves lucky that the district hasn’t experienced more cases of COVID-19.
Dr. Ben Johnson, superintendent, said Monday afternoon no students were positive and around 10 were in quarantine for potential exposure outside of school.
Johnson said he checks in during the morning about where things are and receives an official report at the end of the day.
“One case is always one too many for anyone; we don’t want anyone to be sick, but as far as overall, we’re very fortunate in this area to have low numbers of student quarantine, extremely low numbers of positive cases when you add staff and students together,” he said. “We’ve certainly been prepared and braced for something much, much worse.
“Hopefully, knock on wood, that does not happen, but we’ve been very fortunate at the low number of everything.”
Johnson said that’s a testament to the work the staff put in to make sure everybody is safe with social distancing and cleaning protocol.
“And, our community who have also stepped up because they want their kids in school,” he said. “They’re doing what they’re supposed to be doing at home and keeping their household healthy and safe.”
The district implemented a change to contact tracing protocol provided by the Butler County Health Department Tuesday, Oct. 6.
Under this policy, students named in contact tracing can take a test four days after potential exposure. If it comes back negative, they can return to school as long as they wear a mask for the duration of the 14 days they would have been in quarantine.
Johnson said the district implemented the policy when it was released last week.
He said it will hopefully shorten the time students may be out of school.