By Jamie Henneman
The Times 

Two students test positive for COVID-19

Davenport High School shifts gears to remote learning for one week

 

Last updated 1/20/2021 at 12:45pm



DAVENPORT – The local High School switched all students to remote learning this week after two high school students tested positive for Coronavirus.

Davenport Superintendent Jim Kowalkowski said the school district is working closely with the health department to ensure overall exposure to the student body is “limited.”

“We have been working closely with the Health Department to complete contact tracing. At this time we still have 2 positive cases in the 11th grade, all other tests have been negative. Through our contact tracing interviews we believe that the overall exposure to the student body is limited. We are in the process of contacting a few students and their families who met the definition of having “close contact” with a Covid-19 positive individual, this means they were closer than 6’ feet, without a mask, for longer than 15 minutes. We have determined through the help of our students that these interactions happened mainly outside of the normal school day,” Kowalkowski said in a letter to parents this week. “We are confident that our health and safety measures and protocols are being followed while students are attending classes in-person.”

In person high school classes are scheduled to resume on Monday, Nov. 16.

“We have learned a lot through this process and are hopeful that we can prevent an entire building from having to shut down in the future,” Kowalkowski said.

The school district is tentatively planning to lengthen the school day to 8am to 2pm starting Dec. 1.

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Jamie Henneman, Editor

Jamie Henneman is and editor with Free Press Publishing. She is the editor of the Davenport Times, based in Davenport, Wash.

 

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