School Districts Update Policies to Include Ebola Response
Some metro Atlanta school districts are updating their health policies to include guidelines for the Ebola virus. Some districts, like DeKalb and Cobb, announced this week students from Ebola-affected countries won’t be able to enroll until the superintendent approves their medical documents. Cobb schools spokesperson Kyler Post says it’s a proactive move.
“We haven’t had an incident,” he says. “But, we just went ahead and got this out there as a roadmap as to what we would do in that situation.”
Post says the idea is to safeguard students and staff, not to single anyone out. The Clayton County school system has not issued such a mandate. But spokesperson Vicki Constantinides says the district has provided training for staff.
“It’s not necessary to create a panic where there is none because there are no documented cases of Ebola in the state of Georgia as yet,” she says. “However, we want to be prepared and we want to make sure that our staff and our students and our parents are prepared and informed.”
Constantinides says the district has updated its health policies to include screening procedures for the virus.
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