DCPS letters of close contact make no sense
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Anonymous
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We've received 3 letters this month from DCPS that DS was been identified as a close contact of a positive case at school. The latest letter, received on 12/22, does not include the date of exposure. What good does this letter do if they aren't telling us the date of exposure.
The letter continues on with their recommendation to test 3-5 days after exposure. Again, they provided no date of exposure, so useless information. |
Anonymous
It is DCPS. After being in the school system for 10 years, I can tell you that most everything you receive from them (including report cards) is useless. |
Anonymous
| They are too overwhelmed to contact trace or tell you more. The alternative is waiting for them to figure it out and getting the notification 7-10 days later like my school was sending out before the change. |
Anonymous
| And if you have multiple kids in the same school, it doesn't identify which kid has been a close contact. |
Anonymous
| I had a kid test positive at school in November. We got a close contact notice that night and I still don’t know if that’s because he’s a “close contact” to himself, or what! |
Anonymous
| Just received one of these vague emails. I have three kids at the same school. How am I supposed to know which child? |
Anonymous
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Doesn’t address the letter but after the last week I think it wise that anyone in the schools this past week consider themselves likely close contacts.
I encourages all my HS students to test this week even if the school doesn’t inform them if a contact. Also tested my one child despite not having a notification (and then one came after anyway). |
Anonymous
| 1 in 44 kids in DC age 5-14 was diagnosed with covid in the past week. You should assume all your kids had a contact. |
Anonymous
That's fine, but knowing the 'when' of this contact is crucial. And its not being provided. |
Anonymous
| that’s so odd. we got one for my DD and it tells me which of my daughters is a close contact and the date of exposure. this is a recent letter, too. I would call the school on Monday. |
Anonymous
Really? What's this based on? |
Anonymous
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At our elementary, the principal calls the families who are close contacts of someone exposed. Our 4th grader is not a close contact of a positive case, but we got a notice that someone in her class contracted the virus.
Fwiw, we consider our kid a close contact regardless of the definition. She doesn’t notice when her mask slips, and I’d bet she’s not the only one. If she spent 7 hours in the same room as someone who’s I’ll, she’s been exposed. We are getting her a PCR test tomorrow after her exposure on Tuesday last week, and we’ve kept her away from others outside our family. (We’re Jewish, so Christmas is not a thing for us) If she’s out in public we have her in a KN95 mask, even outside. Luckily, it’s only happened once so far; I’m not looking forward to January. |
Anonymous
Source please? |
Anonymous
Not the PP, but you can calculate the number of DCPS students who tested positive. On 12/15 the total was 1320. On 12/22, the total was 2536. So between then it’s 1216 cases. Last estimate I saw for DCPS enrollment was 49,000. That means about 2.5% of students tested positive that last week. 1 out of 44 would be 2.27%. But this is for all students presumably age 3-26(? How old does DCPS go up to?), not ages 5-14 like PP referred to. https://coronavirus.dc.gov/page/dc-public-schools-dcps-data |
Anonymous
This is lower than my kids pediatrician which had a 5.4% positive rate this past week. |