The rapidly changing rules have many parents unsure when students can go back to the classroom.
Then, as students returned to school this month, both the federal government and New Jersey’s health department lowered their recommendedExcept, some New Jersey school districts are not following that guidance or are making up their own rules.
Though most of New Jersey’s nearly 600 public school districts follow the state’s health recommendations, they are not required to comply. Some districts are sticking with the earlier guidelines that recommended 10 or 14 day quarantines for students and teachers who test positive.Private schools, Catholic schools, yeshivas, prep schools and other education institutions are also free to follow the state’s K-12 guidelines or craft their own quarantine policies.
So, adults age 18 and older exposed to someone with COVID do not need to stay home from school if they have received a full course of vaccine doses and a booster, the guidelines say. And students ages 5 to 17 who were in close contact with someone with COVID do not need to quarantine if they have completed the recommended vaccine shots for their age.No, the new state guidelines shortening the recommended quarantines only apply to New Jersey’s K-12 schools.
Does it matter if your COVID test is a PCR, antigen, at-home test or one administered by a healthcare professional?Five days seems really short for a quarantine. Why did health officials pick that number?
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