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Travel policy exempts fully vaccinated from quarantine
March 10, 2021The Gilford School District will require any students or staff members who travel outside of New England to quarantine, with exceptions for those who are fully vaccinated.
The Gilford School Board adjusted its travel policy during the March 1 meeting based on recent guidance from the NH Department of Health and Human Services. Superintendent Kirk Beitler announced the changes on the Gilford Middle School s Web site.
The policy was updated based on Update #33 from DHHS on vaccine allocations and quarantine guidance.
Under the policy, staff and students who travel outside New England will need to quarantine for 10 days when they return to the region. There are some exceptions to this rule and ways quarantine can end earlier.
December 12, 2020Gilford schools reopened for in-person learning on Dec. 7 with no meetings or action by the school board needed.
On Dec. 3, Beitler announced on the district website that in-person learning would resume as scheduled on Dec. 7 after a week of remote learning after Thanksgiving.
The week before Beitler had recommended before then that the schools stay on remote learning until after the end of Christmas vacation. This recommendation was a response to a large number of students and staff members being in quarantine, a number testing positive for Coronavirus, rising COVID-19 numbers in the town and the state, and concerns about increased transmission during Thanksgiving celebrations.