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USD 422 Board Approves 'Test to Participate' for Student Activities
Summary
On Oct. 19, 2021 the Unified School District No. 422 Board voted to lift an earlier activity cancellation and allow student activities provided each participating student has a negative COVID-19 test prior to each event or practice.
The Unified School District No. 422 Board of Education in Kiowa County voted on Oct. 19, 2021 to modify an earlier activity cancellation and permit student activities if each participating student produces a negative COVID-19 test prior to each time they participate. The special meeting was called to order by President Ki Gamble at 8:00 p.m. in the school auxiliary gymnasium in Greensburg.
The action followed President Ki Gamble's review of the closure enacted earlier in the day and his statement that the local health department indicated it would support modifying the decision to incorporate "test to play" or "test to participate" protocols. Darren McDonald made the motion to "modify the activity cancellation, allowing activities with the stipulation that students must have a negative COVID test result prior to each time they participate," which Paul Kendall seconded.
The motion passed with a recorded tally of Yes: 6, No: 0. The minutes list seven board members as present (Ki Gamble; Paul Kendall; Darren McDonald; Tony Rhodes; Cory Zenger; J. Wynn Fleener and Rosa Hettinger via Zoom) but the recorded vote shows six affirmative votes and does not specify individual votes beyond the tally. President Ki Gamble declared the meeting adjourned at 8:20 p.m.
The district did not record further procedural steps or a written testing protocol in these minutes; details such as who will provide testing, acceptable test types, frequency beyond "prior to each time they participate," and enforcement mechanisms were not specified in the record.
