ZOOM: If you are ill or experiencing COVID symptoms, please feel free to join class using this zoom link. Our default will be that the link is not used in class, so if you want to join that way, please email Laura at least an hour prior to class.

Illness And Absences

When your health allows, you are expected to be present and engaged in class. At the same time, each community member has an individual responsibility to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus and other infectious diseases. Following public health guidance is part of living in an honorable community. 

The following recommendations should guide your decision about coming to class:

• Self-isolation is the recommended course of action for anyone experiencing flu-like symptoms, whether due to possible coronavirus or to other illnesses.  Please stay at home if you feel sick, and contact the Health and Counseling Center (HCC) or your healthcare provider to discuss. 
• If you test positive for COVID-19, you should not attend class for five days.  Please contact the HCC and continue to isolate until you receive a negative antigen test, or until 10 days have passed since your positive test.  You can find more information on Reed’s COVID policies here. 
• The CDC suggests that people with the following symptoms may have COVID: fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea.  As always, please consult a medical professional (members of the HCC or otherwise) if you have any questions about your health or health safety. 

If you need to miss a class, or series of classes, due to illness, self-isolation, and/or quarantine, you are responsible for emailing me to let me know as soon as possible. You are also responsible for coordinating with me to complete work that you might miss due to absences. I will always provide makeup options in cases of excused absence. Also please see the zoom link and policy above.

COVID PROTOCOLS: Masks are optional in this class, and I encourage everyone who prefers to wear a mask to do so. Please respect the choices of your classmates, even if they are different from your own. At any point in this semester, based on community health concerns, class preference,  and/or rising case numbers, we may change to requiring masks.  It is also possible that we may have bigger disruptions due to COVID. We will navigate the situation together, and I promise to maintain open communication so that we all know what is going on.