News 1.) Masks must be worn as soon as the student arrives at school. 2.) At 7:45 a.m., students must immediately walk to class. 3.) During the passing period, students should follow the arrows to keep a social distance of six feet — if they can. 4.) When students come into their second class, they must wash off desktops using school-provided sanitizing wipes; this must be done every class after the first period. 5.) Students are only allowed to take off masks during lunch and if a teacher permits them while in class: a. Classes where students can take mask breaks, if permitted by the teacher: Bagwell’s, Sims’ and Stuckwisch’s. b. If seated six feet apart, students can take off their masks when everyone has stopped moving and seated and have been approved. 6.) If a student is experiencing any of the COVID-19 symptoms, which are posted in class, they must tell a teacher and be checked out by the nurse. 7.) Students must have a temperature of 99.9 degrees or less to attend school. 8.) When a student is sent home by the nurse, they must follow Health Department guidelines. If the individual is not a known close contact to a COVID-19 case and has not tested, then they must remain home for at least 10 days since the first symptoms began and be fever free without the use of fever-reducing medications for 24 hours. a. If diagnosed with another condition that explains the symptoms, the student does not need to isolate–doctor’s note required to return to school. b. If the individual is not a known close contact to a COVID-19 case and has tested negative, then the student can return to school if they are fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications, unless otherwise advised. c. If the individual is not a known close contact to a COVID-19 case and has tested positive, then the student must isolate at home for at least 10 days since the first symptoms began and be fever free without the use of fever-reducing medications for a day.
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recommends “staying still indoors for about 30 minutes.” “Earlier in the school year when the sun was getting up earlier and was quite bright, I felt that consistently scanning facing the east was causing the temperature readings to gradually increase,” DePriest said. “Also, Mr. Deaton has mentioned that at football practice if the thermometer is sitting out with the sun beating on it, they will get unusually high readings. In these cases, they simply move into the shade to get more accurate readings.”
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air temperature. The manufacturer recommends the thermometer be “placed indoors for about 30 minutes if ambient temperature varies a lot before using” and the thermometer should not be used in air temperatures less than 59 degrees or greater than 104 degrees. When temperatures drop below 59 degrees as the season changes taking temperatures outside might result in problems for the thermometer. Simzo also notes in the instruction manual that “exercise, eating, or bathing” before measurement will impact the results; to fix the issue, the manufacturer
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Test results: Using two thermometers, the SHS and Infrared, The Booster took 12 students’ temperatures using the students’ foreheads at varying distances to compare the data. All data was collected indoors.
Sept. 2020, Issue 1
PBIS moves to online orders Justice LaMaster staff writer This year due to COVID-19 concerns, SHS made some changes to the PBIS Warrior booth system. According to Jennifer Morris, everything — except for pickup — will be done in an online Google form to help prevent lines from forming and contact of students. “Each week by Friday, students will complete the Google form to request their items in exchange for Warrior points. On Wednesdays during their lunches, they will pick up their bags with their rewards at the old slushy shack table by the cafeteria lines,” Morris said. Like previous years, Morris’ entrepreneurship class will continue organizing the PBIS system and taking on the responsibility of making sure students receive the requested items. However, this year, the students have more tasks to perform in light of COVID-19 safety protocols. The students must review the Google form with everyone’s requests, review the amount of points the students have, and review what the student asked for and find out the item’s availability. “...The entrepreneurship class, writes out on a sticky note the items requested by the students and puts them in individual bags; students check their amount of points in the HERO system, if they do not have enough points or the item they requested sold out, they will be contacted by email to notify the student. Entrepreneurship students will take out the points out of the Hero system, orders will be bagged up using gloves and with students wearing masks, and orders will be picked up during respective lunches on Wednesdays,” Morris said. If students are having issues with their Hero accounts, Morris encourages students to ask one of their teachers to see how many points they have available. Although the PBIS system is running slower now, Morris said with the new PBIS system, students will have a better variety of what they want, rather than running out all in one lunch period. Students can expect to get their requested items on Wednesday where the old slushy shack counter sits by the cafeteria lines.
