Have To Stay Home From School Due To Covid Quarantine? You’re Excused …0 The Hawaii Department of Education revised its attendance policy but didn’t say whether kids kept home because their parents fear Covid exposure would also be excused.
Kids who miss school because of officially directed quarantine or isolation from Covid-19 will have their absences marked as “excused” under an updated attendance policy from the state Department of Education.
Students who are sick, recently tested positive for the coronavirus or had potential exposure to someone else who did must quarantine for 10 days and get tested three to five days after exposure, according to the DOE’s health and safety handbook.
Schools previously had no mechanism to note that a student had to stay home due to quarantine or isolation at the direction of school leaders. That left kids vulnerable to a potentially long string of unexcused absences that could lead down the path toward truancy or even chronic absenteeism.
