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As the Delta variant of COVID-19 spreads rapidly, you may be seeking best practices for your child to follow in school. Some schools do not require masks—some states even ban wearing masks—and children under the age of 12 are not eligible to be vaccinated. These factors put school children in particular at risk of contracting and spreading COVID-19.
With constantly changing data and recommendations, sending your child back to school can be an arduous process. Our back to school guide is designed to help parents and their children return to school safely and keep up to date information.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Delta variant is more contagious than any COVID-19 variant. Unfortunately, the rapid spread of Delta variants puts children at greater risk of returning to school. Healthy practices can reduce your child’s risk of catching the virus from classmates-but before you outline these, it may be helpful to understand the challenges you may face when sending your child back to school.
As the pandemic continues, parents face numerous challenges in sending their children back to school.
School districts in states that prohibit wearing masks, such as Florida and South Carolina, may lose state funding if they implement the order to wear masks. In many schools, parents make the final decision on whether their children wear masks at school, which means that many children do not wear masks. Mask wearing regulations and mask wearing bans are constantly changing, so it’s best to check with their school district throughout the year for your child’s school. Keep in mind that in states where there is no mandatory requirement (or no mandatory requirement), it is usually the school district that decides whether to wear a mask.
If your child wears masks in a different way at school, they may get sick easily. If your child is sick at school or nursery, or their school or nursery is closed due to the epidemic, you may not have other childcare options, especially because many parents have already returned to work in the office. Since the beginning of the pandemic, parents have been dealing with parenting issues, so many articles now provide advice and resources. You may want to research potential childcare solutions before you need to, in order to be prepared if your child is sick or their classroom is temporarily closed.
At the beginning of the pandemic, the CDC discouraged wearing masks. Now, masks have proven to be one of the most successful ways to stop the spread of COVID. In the year and a half since the pandemic, we have learned a lot about this virus, how it spreads, and the most effective preventive measures. However, if anything, many communities still disagree on what preventive measures should be taken. The disagreement on how to prevent COVID-19 infection may be due to the constant emergence of new information. With information, rules, and guidelines constantly changing, keeping up to date with the latest coronavirus news from the CDC can help you make informed decisions about your child’s health when you return to school.
Although some information may change, whether it’s about COVID-19, flu, common cold, or anything else, a proven and reliable method is always a good idea. Facts have proved that washing hands with warm soapy water, maintaining social distancing, disinfecting frequently used items, covering sneezing and coughing with paper towels, and wearing a mask can all slow the spread of bacteria.
Parents in states that ban masks may have a harder time ensuring that their children stay safe. Even if you let your child wear a mask to go to school, you cannot be sure that their classmates will follow suit. Thankfully, there are other steps you can take to reduce your child’s risk.
Let your child know about CDC’s latest safety guidelines and explain why it is important to follow these tips. Let your child know the consequences of not taking precautions against COVID.
Some schools are better prepared for COVID-19 safety materials than others. For example, schools in Washington State must maintain social distancing, improve ventilation, wear masks, and enforce disinfection of surfaces and hands. In contrast, school districts in South Carolina are prohibited from enacting mask regulations.
No matter where you live, you can keep your child’s safety in your own hands. One way to ensure that your child stays healthy is to prepare a health and safety kit instead of relying on their school to provide what they need.
Sending your child and the health and safety kit to school does not automatically guarantee their safety. Given their age, you may want to talk to your child about why COVID-19 guidelines are important. If your child is scared or confused, you may want to encourage them to ask questions and learn with you. The COVID guidelines are not intended to scare your child. Instead, you can use these tips as a fun way to reduce the spread of bacteria in the classroom.
According to the CDC, children under 12 are not currently eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
Some Americans are concerned about receiving vaccines that are not fully approved by the FDA. Fortunately, Pfizer vaccine has recently received full approval from the FDA, and Moderna is likely to receive full approval for its vaccine version soon.
Current news reports indicate that sometime this fall, children between the ages of 2 and 11 may be provided with vaccines.
If you or your child feel unwell, or if your child has been exposed to the virus at school, it is important to be tested for COVID-19. The CDC recommends testing five days after exposure to prevent false negatives, and recommends that people who think they may be infected with COVID-19 should be quarantined until they receive a negative result. Even if their symptoms prove to be a cold, getting tested will make you sure. In contrast, if your child is infected with COVID and is not tested, they may return to school and are at risk of infecting their class.
If you are considering taking a test, please keep in mind that your area may have special regulations for testing. For example, in under-tested areas, you may have to experience symptoms to qualify for testing.
If your child tests positive for COVID-19, the CDC recommends that your child be isolated immediately. Instead of sending your child back to school, you should call the administration or your child’s teacher and ask for school materials from home. Your child should stay at home for 10 days after showing symptoms. During these 10 days, your children are not allowed to gather in public places or play with other children to prevent them from spreading the virus.
You may be able to keep your child sterile and healthy on the way to school, but the car on the return journey may not be so clean. Children can track germs from the classroom to the car, and then return to the family members at home. However, there are several ways to make your journey home as sterile as possible.
You will never be too careful when promoting healthy practices in your vehicle. In addition, if you are going to drive frequently while running at school, you will never be too cautious about protecting yourself financially in the event of a car accident, so make sure you have the best car insurance.
Of course, not every parent will drive their children to school. More than half of school children ride buses. Most school buses can accommodate 22 to 24 passengers-some of them may not have been vaccinated or have not taken proper COVID-19 precautions. If your children take a bus, you can ask them to follow certain rules to minimize the risk. Taking some precautions can have an impact on COVID safety during transportation to and from school.
Many parents take turns in carpooling with neighboring families to pick up and drop their children to school. Although carpooling may be slightly riskier than your child’s ride in your car, this method is much safer than taking a bus. To ensure safety when carpooling, you may need to ensure that other parents agree to certain COVID guidelines, such as wearing a mask in the car, traveling with car windows closed, disinfecting surfaces before and after the ride, and using hand sanitizer.
As mentioned earlier, mask requirements and sanitation protocols vary from school district to school district. Regardless of whether your child’s school requires students to wear masks, teaching them safe practices will help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the classroom.
If your child is going to return to school, please consider discussing with them how they can do their part to ensure everyone’s safety.
If you feel overwhelmed by going back to school during COVID, you are not alone. Millions of American families are dealing with this daunting experience. Nonetheless, some resources can help simplify this process and ensure that everyone has a great school year.
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Post time: Sep-10-2021