Culver Community School Superintendent Karen Shuman announced Wednesday that two students have tested positive with COVID-19 at the school corporation and those students have been in quarantine since Fall Break.
She noted that 15 students are absent due to COVID-19 which includes the two students who tested positive and 13 students who are close contacts.
Shuman said the school officials are maintaining a healthy environment at the school corporation with temperature checks, attendance monitoring, self checking, frequent sanitation, wearing masks, social distancing, and keeping the community informed. These practices will be continued as long as necessary, according to Shuman.
She stressed that the administrative team is on alert and prepared to advise and adapt when students or staff members gets sick.
Plymouth Community School Superintendent Andy Hartley said the school officials are taking it day by day when it comes to reacting to COVID-19 cases in the school corporation and contact tracing.
Hartley stated, “I’d like to commend our teachers and staff, administrators, and school nurses and the work they’re doing, just in having school every day and balancing the in-person kids along with the virtual kids.”
Just like he has since the start of school, Hartley keeps in constant contact with the Marshall County Health Department when it comes to COVID-19.
“I can’t thank them enough, our public health nurses and health official Dr. [Byron] Holm, for helping us answer basic or complicated questions, providing us with information, reviewing plans that we have for particular events, or responding to situations. They’ve been extremely helpful and we appreciate everything that they’re doing for us and the community.”
School officials continue to look at plans and adapt to the environment as it constantly changes in order to keep students and staff members as safe as possible.
