Greenville County School Trustees want DHEC to extend the same guidance to students it issued two weeks ago that cancels quarantine requirements for teachers and staff who've been exposed to COVID-19, but show no symptoms.
Board members voted eight-to-one to send a letter to the chairman of DHEC asking the agency to consider updating its staff and faculty guidance to allow students to return to class, regardless of vaccination status, if they exhibit no symptoms. The current guidance, which the district enforces, requires a student exposed to the virus to remain in quarantine for five days returning to class only after receiving negative test results and must wear a mask for more days in school.
The board's letter, also addressed to the Governor and the Greenville County legislative delegation, says more than twenty thousand students missed classes in the first four months of this school year under previous quarantine requirements... days, the board members say, they didn't have to miss.