(Griswold) The Griswold School Board on Monday discussed the return-to-learn plan, mask mandates, and reporting positive COVID-19 cases.
Griswold Schools Superintendent Dave Henrichs says following school board approval, the district will start reporting positive cases of COVID -19 on the school’s website. The report uses the following categories; students in the Elementary building, Middle school, High School students, and staff. “The important thing for everyone to remember it’s different from last year because we’re not getting outside help from Public Health and those types of organizations,” said Henrichs. “We know about a case when parents tell us, so it may not be 100-percent accurate.”
So far this school year, eight Griswold students have tested COVID-19 positive, and seven recovered, compared to last school year when six students and staff tested COVID positive; so similar numbers.
“The big thing on people’s minds in the mask mandate and at the time the School Board elected not to enforce the mask mandate,” said Henrichs.
The Iowa Department of Public Health’s latest COVID 19 weekly update showed 91 additional positive cases of COVID-19 in Cass County from September 15 to September 22.
