Vermilion Parish School System keeping eye on COVID

With the increase of COVID over the last two weeks, Vermilion Parish school systems took a step back to see if they needed to make any changes to their COVID policies.
Superintendent Tommy Byler informed students and parents this past weekend that there would be no school this past Monday, but teachers and staff had to report.
Catholic schools in the parish also did not have school on Monday.
After meeting with teachers, Byler did not make any drastic changes to the COVID policies.
He reminded students to wear masks when riding a school bus. He also recommended that students, staff, and teachers wear masks in school. Byler, however, did not make it mandatory to wear masks.
He said masks are “highly recommended indoors but not mandated.”
Quarantining will follow the new CDC guidelines, he stated.
“Thank you to all stakeholders who adjusted to our change. We are all in this together, and in the end, we all want what is best for our students.
“We got this Vermilion. Let’s all be great together.