Forsyth spells out Ebola stance with letter

The Forsyth County Superintendent of Schools has sent a letter to district parents, guardians and students spelling out the system’s Ebola protocols.

The missive from Jeffrey Bearden says that kids who have traveled to or from Ebola-impacted West African countries won’t be allowed to enroll in or return to district schools until they’ve completed a 21-day monitoring period and have been medically cleared by a doctor to enroll in school.

The letter is a follow-up to a flurry of meetings last month establishing the district’s stance on the deadly disease, which has killed nearly 5,000 people in several west African nations. It also notes that there’s been no outbreak in Georgia.