List of what each school is doing

[Anonymous]

Have any schools sent updates yet?

[Anonymous]

SAES had to cancel on campus required testing today due to storm so has moved the full week to virtual. Testing now on Saturday with in person school resuming Monday.

[Anonymous]

BVR had to do the same as SAES. Bummer!

[Anonymous]

Got our results (negative) this morning but still waiting for the update from the school on how many students/staff tested positive and what the plan is.....

[Anonymous]

FYSA, boosters for 12-15-year-olds have gone live. I just booked one for my 8th grader at Walgreens.

(I know this is tangential to the topic, but I'm sure schools will be requiring this soon.)

[Anonymous]

Any announcements from the testing privates yet?

[Anonymous]

SSSS did whole school testing yesterday (1/2) and, based on those results, is continuing with virtual for the week (Monday 1/3 was a scheduled virtual day). Return to in-person will be on Monday 1/10. There will be another whole school testing day on Thursday (1/5) to isolate any positive cases not caught by the 1/2 testing. Apparently, of the 1,214 people (students and staff) tested on 1/2, there were 135 positive results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SSSS did whole school testing yesterday (1/2) and, based on those results, is continuing with virtual for the week (Monday 1/3 was a scheduled virtual day). Return to in-person will be on Monday 1/10. There will be another whole school testing day on Thursday (1/5) to isolate any positive cases not caught by the 1/2 testing. Apparently, of the 1,214 people (students and staff) tested on 1/2, there were 135 positive results.

Sorry, that's SSSAS.

[Anonymous]

WES is closed Tuesday & virtual rest of the week. Thursday half day synchronous so parents can bring their kids for Covid testing.

[Anonymous]

River School moved testing (again) to Wednesday. Says that they will consider re-opening on Thursday pending results. Apparently no plan for virtual in place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SSSS did whole school testing yesterday (1/2) and, based on those results, is continuing with virtual for the week (Monday 1/3 was a scheduled virtual day). Return to in-person will be on Monday 1/10. There will be another whole school testing day on Thursday (1/5) to isolate any positive cases not caught by the 1/2 testing. Apparently, of the 1,214 people (students and staff) tested on 1/2, there were 135 positive results.

Sorry, that's SSSAS.

With an 11% positivity rate that seems like a reasonable approach, because this is measuring the entire school population, not a sample. The 20%+ numbers reported by state or local governments are based on a self-selected sample so they can't be directly compared to a measure of the entire population (the results reported by states are people who sought a test because they felt sick or were traveling and so can be expected to be higher in general). A second test on Thursday will help establish how much ongoing community spread there is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any announcements from the testing privates yet?

Public school parent/ teacher alert.

[Anonymous]

DD Received an email that she had close contact with somebody who had Covid. She tested before we traveled, she was negative. Got back from traveling tested again for school, negative. She never got the booster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I'm just going to say it. Schools need to stay closed this week DMV is a Covid hotspot, snow tomorrow, families coming back from travels and reunions, teachers who may have it, kids indoors. They say this will peak Jan 9. Just keep the schools closed and the hospitals out of meltdown.

Yeah, two weeks to slow the spread. Three years later…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SSSS did whole school testing yesterday (1/2) and, based on those results, is continuing with virtual for the week (Monday 1/3 was a scheduled virtual day). Return to in-person will be on Monday 1/10. There will be another whole school testing day on Thursday (1/5) to isolate any positive cases not caught by the 1/2 testing. Apparently, of the 1,214 people (students and staff) tested on 1/2, there were 135 positive results.

Sorry, that's SSSAS.

With an 11% positivity rate that seems like a reasonable approach, because this is measuring the entire school population, not a sample. The 20%+ numbers reported by state or local governments are based on a self-selected sample so they can't be directly compared to a measure of the entire population (the results reported by states are people who sought a test because they felt sick or were traveling and so can be expected to be higher in general). A second test on Thursday will help establish how much ongoing community spread there is.

SSSAS parent here. They made the right call.