Daily Temperature Checks
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) will no longer conduct daily temperature checks for students, staff and visitors.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not recommend schools conduct symptom screening for all students in grades K-12 on a routine (e.g. daily) basis.
- Symptom screening will identify only that a person might be sick, not that the person necessarily has COVID-19.
- Accuracy of thermometers is limited in extreme temperatures
The CDC recommends that parents, caregivers or guardians, should monitor their children for symptoms of infectious illness every day through home-based symptom screening.
Students, staff and visitors still required to complete a daily health screening questionnaire.
Any student, staff or visitor demonstrating symptoms of illness should stay home to help stop the spread of COVID-19.