The South Butler School District superintendent said the district is not incenitivizing students if they get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Allie Meyers, a junior at Knoch High School, said on Wednesday that she was pulled from history class Sept. 2 and told that she had been in contact with another student who received a positive COVID-19 test.

Per the district’s policy, Allie was told she had to quarantine and study at home until Sept. 13, unless she could produce a negative COVID-19 test, she said.

Allie said Todd Trofimuk, Knoch High School principal, then told her that she could return to school Sept. 7 if she got a COVID-19 vaccine and presented a card.

She also said a classmate who is vaccinated was exposed to the virus at school, but was not required to quarantine.

“She got COVID and now she’s in quarantine,” Allie said.

She said students who are not vaccinated and whose families do not believe in the vaccine are angry that they must quarantine upon exposure and the vaccinated students don’t.

“I feel like if someone is going to get quarantined, then everyone who was exposed should have to, vaccinated or not,” Allie said.

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