To Parents and Guardians,

Google now requires more parental permission to use its various platforms. We currently provide a Google Workspace for Education account for your child. Google Workspace for Education has been evolving over the last decade. It is identified as a set of education productivity tools from Google, including, but not limited to, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Classroom, and more, and used by tens of millions of students and teachers worldwide.

For example, students at the American School of Doha use their Google Workspace for Education accounts to complete assignments, communicate with their teachers, and learn 21st-century digital citizenship skills.

To complement Google’s Workspace for Education subscription, Google has clarified their other services that fall outside the scope of our Google Workspace for Education subscription. One of their more highly utilized services from the “additional services list” is YouTube. ASD enhances its curriculum through many web-based media and application sites, and more arise every day. YouTube is the leading content application for many diverse and educational materials. We would be remiss if we didn’t amplify the education of our students through the use of YouTube's services. Specifically, at ASD, YouTube enhances the delivery of our curriculum through gaining access to free, high-quality lecture content, sharing and collaborating on student work, reinforcing class materials and lessons, demonstrating labs and experiments, keeping content relevant and recent, and many more ways of extending students’ learning.

Since YouTube is classified as an “additional service” and falls outside of our Google Workspace for Education subscription, Google requires parental/guardian permission for those “additional services.” ASD continues to utilize sources across the Internet to enhance and expand our curriculum delivery. By providing consent for your child to access those outstanding resources, they will continue to access those essential resources in the learning process. We ask that you please provide your permission by authorizing and submitting the form HERE.

If you have any questions, please contact Jeff Kersting, Director of Innovation and Technology.

Thank you,

Jeff Kerstings

Director of Innovation and Technology

American School of Doha

Greetings From ASD Nursing,

Just a couple of reminders for the upcoming weeks.

Students who are absent for 2 or more consecutive days require a doctor’s note of medical clearance OR a negative COVID-19 test in order to return to school when they are feeling better. We understand that students sometimes just need a mental health day and will miss one day of school and that is fine. However, 2 or more consecutive days require that the student sees a doctor. In addition, if students have any cold or flu symptoms we strongly urge that students get a COVID test done. This can be either a rapid antigen or a PCR test. This is whether or not a student is vaccinated or not. It is our recommendation that when any of the following symptoms are present that testing is done:

• 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

For students who are 12 years of age and older who are either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated please remember:

• The MOEHE and MOPH are requiring weekly test results for students to attend school each week.

• Tests can be PCR tests or rapid antigen.

• If a student is between dose 1 and dose 2 of the vaccine students are still required to submit weekly test results until the nursing department receives either a vaccination card or vaccination certificate as documentation that vaccination is complete.

• Test results may be uploaded to this form. We will also accept test results or COVID vaccination documentation to carmen.jones@asd.edu.qa or laureen.tordecillas@asd.edu.qa.

Preparing to travel for the holidays? Please keep in mind that ASD is trusting families to adhere to the quarantine guidelines that are given to students when they get back to Hamad International Airport. Depending on the country you are traveling from will determine how long quarantine will be upon arrival back to Qatar or if it is even necessary. Once you get this information it is important that you report these dates to the office of your student’s respective division here at ASD so that faculty are aware.

Parents, if your family is moving from Doha, and your child will be withdrawing from ASD, please notify Admissions immediately. According to policy, for first semester, private pay tuition will be refunded after the later of the 45 day written notice period or the last day of attendance. Full 2nd semester tuition is due and payable for any student enrolled at the start of the second semester, no refunds will be made. For any questions on the refund policy, please contact the Business Office.

Contact the Business Office at:

Tel: 4499-1144 or 4459-1520