Covid-19 and Wellness.
As an intentionally small school, The Dahlia School of San Francisco is well positioned to address the changing needs of the Covid-19 pandemic with teacher-student ratios, adaptive systems, direct and frequent communication between families and teachers all while providing a high-quality, child-centered Montessori education. We are also grateful for a community committed to maintaining a healthy school environment for a children, staff and parents.
Here are our latest COVID-19 and wellness policies at school:
Our school aims to reduce contagious and severe illness from circulating at school. When children are allowed to recover at home it helps them avoid minor colds from transitioning to severe illness such as bronchitis, croup, ear infections, strep through and more. For this reason we ask that children exhibiting signs of illness are not brought to school. For standard cold symptoms we often measure this as a runny nose needing to be cleaned more than every 30 minutes, or uncontrolled cough more than every 10 minutes.
If a child begins exhibiting symptoms of illness at school, the student will be comfortably quarantined and parents will be required to pick them up within one hour.
Vaccines remain our greatest defense against continued surges of COVID-19 among our community. Our school requires fully COVID-19 vaccination or a written medical exemption from a physician of staff and students.
For children exhibiting signs of illness, our school requires them to be 48 hours symptom free and to submit a negative COVID test to return.
We remind students to wash hands with soap frequently and encourage parents to remind their students of this practice as well.
KN95, KF94 or surgical masks are optional and encouraged when a family or student chooses to wear them. Please send children with 3 clean masks per day, and we ask that they are KN95, KF94 or surgical.
Our school sends “Confirmed Exposure” notifications to families, however unvaccinated students with written medical exemptions are required to quarantine for 72 hours and test to return.
Our leadership team continues to carefully monitor the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic and plan to offer safe in-person learning whenever possible. We intend to follow the highest safety precautions as advised by the Centers for Disease Control, San Francisco Department of Public Health, and California Childcare Licensing, including vaccination requirements for our staff and community.
