Superintendent Jette recently shared some COVID updates via video with the MPS community. If you haven't seen the video,  you can watch it here. You can also read his written update at the top of this week's blog post. 

Over the past few weeks, many Glover students have been affected by close contact situations with their siblings at other schools. Please remember that if one member of your family has been identified as a close contact of a positive, all children should stay home from school and will have the opportunity to stream live into the classroom on regular in-person days.

Many families have found this Close Contact Flow Chart helpful when making decisions about whether students should stay home from school or not. Please remember that many questions are answered in detail on the COVID resources page on the MPS website. For more information on the MPS Positive Case Identification Process and Close Contact Determination Process, click here. 

All elementary families of students who loan out an MPS Chromebook have the option of purchasing insurance for their student’s Chromebook for the 2020-21 school year.  The optional insurance is thirty dollars and will cover any accidental damages to your student’s Chromebook.  Here is a link with instructions on how to purchase Optional Chromebook Insurance.

Chromebook Not Working? We are here to help!

If your school-issued device is not working, please email helpdesk@miltonps.org and we can arrange for a swap-out. Before you request a new chromebook, please make sure you have completed these steps:

1. Update your Chromebook

2. Turn Your Computer Off and Back On using the Power Button

3. Check to See that the Keyboard is Set to US 

4. Make Sure the Chromebook Charger is Fully Plugged In

5. If the device still does not work after trying these steps, please let us know.

There are new times for weekly meal pick up at MHS. To access information about this opportunity for all MPS families, please click here. 

COVID-Related Policies and Absences:

Students are instructed to stay home and quarantine for 14 days if they have been notified by the Board of Health or Kim Coughlin that they are a close contact of a positive case.  This is also the case if someone has been notified by a friend or family member that they have been in contact with, because sometimes the BOH has a bit of a delay before they are able to reach all contacts.  This is true, even if the student's COVID test is negative.

Students (and staff) will be instructed to stay home while household members are waiting for results of a test.  This eliminates additional potential exposures if that household member ends up testing positive.

In short, staff and students should stay home if they have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 or someone in their household is waiting for results of a COVID-19 test 

If a student is asked to stay home for any of these reasons, that student will be allowed to live stream into their regularly scheduled in-person classes only on they day(s) they would be in those in-person classes. 

Flu Vaccines:

Thank you to all families for helping to keep Glover School a healthy environment for our students and staff!  Please be aware that for the 2020-2021 school year, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is requiring Flu Vaccine for all children 6 months of age or older who are attending Massachusetts child care, pre-school, kindergarten, K-12, and colleges and universities. Students who are in the remote education model are not exempt. Therefore this mandate includes students in Cohort D.

A flu vaccine is the first and most important thing you can do to reduce the risk of getting sick with the flu, reduce the risk of the severity of the flu if you do get sick, and prevent the spread of the flu to others. During this COVID-19 pandemic, the flu vaccine will be especially critical to reduce the overall impact of respiratory illnesses on everyone and decrease the overall burden on the healthcare system. Students must receive influenza vaccine for the CURRENT season by December 31, 2020.  Please forward required documentation to the Glover School nurse, Maureen LeBlanc, by December 31, 2020.

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