Haggard Childcare Resources COVID Policies (Updated 9/12/2025)

Vaccinations:

  1. All HCR employees are strongly recommended to be fully vaccinated.

  2. At this time, children are encouraged, but not required to be vaccinated.

Positive COVID Cases:

Adults:

  • Adults are no longer required to isolate for the 5-day period after symptoms or a positive test.  Adults may return to the school when they have been fever free for 24 hours without fever reducing medication and their symptoms are improving. 

  • Adults will wear a close fitting mask five days after returning to normal activites.

  • Adults are not required to have a negative test prior to returning to school after the appearance of symptoms.

Children:

  • Children with confirmed COVID are no longer required to isolate for the 5-day period.

  • Children may return to school when they have been fever free for 24 hours without fever reducing medication and their symptoms are improving.  Preschooler will be encouraged to wear a mask for a five day period following a return to normal activities. Infants and Toddlers should not mask.

  • Children are not required to have a negative test prior to returning to school after the appearance of symptoms.

Revised Guidance in Case of Outbreak

If the school experiences a COVID outbreak, defined by Public Health Seattle-King County as 5 related cases within a defined/related space within a 14 day period, we may elect (in consultation with PHSKC) to put more stringent mitigation measures in place.

Notification/Testing

In case of outbreak, we will notify all families across the school, regardless of their presence in the defined space of the outbreak. We encourage all families to test their child for COVID on the next day, before arriving at school. No negative results must be reported, but we ask that you share any positive result your child may have.

*Notification to families for a single confirmed COVID case will be limited to the classroom impacted.

Masking

After outbreak status is reached, all staff will be highly encouraged (not required) to mask for five (5) days after the last confirmed case.

Staffing Classrooms

As our policy continues to evolve to less classroom closures and exclusion, we've experienced increased instances with multiple staff absent for COVID or symptoms at any time.  While we will continue to adjust as we can, there may be times when the reduced staffing will require a classroom to reduce hours or close temporarily.  Please be mindful of this possibility and plan accordingly.