A Closer Look At The Back To School Toolkit

A Closer Look At The Back To School Toolkit

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Our coverage moves back to huntsville now.

Today the city school district talked to us about the back to school toolkit it recieved from the alabama department of public health.

Waay 31's sydney martin talked to the district's health service coordinator about what changes - if any - they'll have to make.

Andrea penn, health services coordinator, "we had many of these things that are in the toolkit already in place and already ready to go.

I feel like we could move forward very effectively and very efficiently if that had been the case that we had students back in the building on the first day."

Huntsville city schools health services coordinator andrea penn told me much of what was in the alabama department of public health's back to school plan- was already in place for the district in it's reset plan... penn told me she had already reviewed c-d-c guidelines much of what was in the 86 page plan...and explained the reporting aspect isn't all that new to the district's nurses.

Andrea penn, health services coordinator, " our nurses will be doing our reporting the alabama department of public health which is something we have been familiar with because anytime there is any communicable disease outbreak of any kind, we always have to report those to the alabama department of pubic health."

Penn told me each school in the district has it's own nurse- and creating areas for students with coronavirus symptoms to be isolated from the rest of the students until they can be picked up will be prepared if and when students return to school sometime this year.

"these rooms will accommodate more than one student and they will be placed 6 feet apart distance to maintain that social distancing and we will have personnel that will be in there monitoring the student and they will all have on appropriate ppe as well."

Penn told me in the meantime, they'll be watching the c- d-c's guidelines closely to make sure they adapt to any changes that are made.

"plans change, things change, cdc guidance has changed several times and so we are just again working to stay abreast of all the current guidelines from adph and cdc so we can make sure we mitigate the risk to students and staff as much as possible."

Syd, "huntsville city schools was awarded close to 2 million dollars through an education and wellness grant from the state- penn told me the district is still determining how that money will be spent.

In huntsville sm waay 31 news.