With the state offering schools the option to participate in the Screen and Stay initiative, there are certain conditions that must be met.  This is the program that would allow an unvaccinated, asymptomatic student to stay in the classroom rather than quarantining if they're identified as a close contact to someone who has COVID.  Students must be asymptomatic and have been wearing a mask during the potential exposure.  Bethel Superintendent Christine Carver says if exposure happened during extracurriculars or during sports, that may still result in a quarantine.  The Department of Health would also still require a quarantine because of exposure at a youth sporting event or social or family gathering.  Carver says the state initiative does require districts to provide alternate activities for those students, even though they can stay in school.  This is for things like chorus, band and gym class.  Those students can still go to those classes, but will be given other activities during the time when they typically would have quarantined as a result of an exposure.  Carver says this will be less disruptive to learning and to families work schedules and in the home.