No Sniffles Allowed In Marblehead Schools This Year

MARBLEHEAD, MA — Marblehead parents are being told to keep students home rather than send them out with a pack of Kleenex this year.

Amid the coronavirus health crisis, parents were given a checklist to go through each day as classes are expected to shift from remote learning to a hybrid in-person model over the next few weeks.

The list includes taking a student's temperature each morning and keeping them home if it registers at 100 degrees or above, not sending them to school if they have taken any fever-reducing medication within the previous six hours and not sending them to schools with any of the following symptoms: fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, headache, fatigue (when in combination with other symptoms), body or muscle aches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of taste or smell.

Students also must be kept home if they have been in close contact with anyone with those symptoms for the past 14 days or who have traveled to any high-risk states designated by the Massachusetts Department of Health.

The full checklist can be found here: