If you Would like to be notified when a student in your kids class has covid, email your Council

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I asked my kid to tell me if a group of kids are ever absent from her class. Then we'll know there was a COVID case. Problem solved.

This. Our school has been notifying classes all along but I have to laugh when people say “omg, we will never know unless we get emails.” Umm, kids are the nosiest, best reporters in the world. Every day, I get a report of exactly who was absent in each of my kids’ classrooms. When one of my kid’s had a positive in the class, I knew an hour before I got the call about it because the moment I picked my kid up, I got told that a group of “friends” got picked up early from school today. These were the close contacts. That was a Tuesday. I asked my kid, who did you say was absent yesterday? My kid told me “X” was absent yesterday and today. I assumed then and there it was X. When all the kids returned to class the following Monday, my kid excitedly told me how X told everyone she had Covid. It’s not at all a secret or some puzzle to decipher. And for those panicky folks, here is a fun tidbit - no one else in the class got Covid, not even my child who actually happens to be best friends with X and plays with X everyday, including the day X apparently took the Covid test (still no clue why my child wasn’t identified as a close contact but the experience just underscored how unnecessary these quarantines are)

That's true, but you can't trust Kindergarteners as much although my son does tell me a lot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked my kid to tell me if a group of kids are ever absent from her class. Then we'll know there was a COVID case. Problem solved.

This. Our school has been notifying classes all along but I have to laugh when people say “omg, we will never know unless we get emails.” Umm, kids are the nosiest, best reporters in the world. Every day, I get a report of exactly who was absent in each of my kids’ classrooms. When one of my kid’s had a positive in the class, I knew an hour before I got the call about it because the moment I picked my kid up, I got told that a group of “friends” got picked up early from school today. These were the close contacts. That was a Tuesday. I asked my kid, who did you say was absent yesterday? My kid told me “X” was absent yesterday and today. I assumed then and there it was X. When all the kids returned to class the following Monday, my kid excitedly told me how X told everyone she had Covid. It’s not at all a secret or some puzzle to decipher. And for those panicky folks, here is a fun tidbit - no one else in the class got Covid, not even my child who actually happens to be best friends with X and plays with X everyday, including the day X apparently took the Covid test (still no clue why my child wasn’t identified as a close contact but the experience just underscored how unnecessary these quarantines are)

That's true, but you can't trust Kindergarteners as much although my son does tell me a lot.

I’m the PP. My child IS a kindergartener. While there may be some things Kindergarteners can’t be fully trusted to accurately recount things involving subjectivity due to developing understandings and perspectives, they are incredibly accurate and reliable for black and white facts. Who was and was not in your class today is one of those things. Teachers do attendance with the class everyday. It’s not just a matter of seeing an empty chair. Everyone knows who is missing because of the roll calls. My older kids’ classes also do the roll calls which is why they too know exactly who is missing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

Yes, we were at a school in Capitol Hill that did not share parents' emails with classes.

[Anonymous]

What is the purpose? What action would you take once you are notified? Are you going to run out at take a covid test? I can understand if this was someone your kid hung out with, but then your kid would already know he/she was exposed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Janney has been notifying parents with a separate message if a case was in their kid’s class. Not sure what that is supposed to change for anyone, besides being even more relieved not to have been identified as a close contact. I guess it allows the Covid anxious to test their child. So far though, even the close contacts haven’t become infected, not even when the positive kid was symptomatic in class, so I’m not particularly worried. Delta hasn’t exactly been ripping through classrooms like the doomsayers wanted.

This must be a change since I was not notified of COVID cases in my child’s class, but rather heard it through the grapevine (which is not good).

Either you missed the notification or there wasn’t a Covid case in your kids class. Perhaps it was a sibling of a kid in your kid’s class that caused the sibling to quarantine. But I can guarantee due to personal knowledge that every classroom got notified of every positive at Janney.

Nope, I have personal knowledge that I did not get notified (I found out bc a friend of my child was quarantining), but it was in the first week so perhaps they were still working out the system.

[Anonymous]

Our charter notifies and the full class quarantines for 7-10 days. No mask or close contact exceptions. I'm okay with this but those who appreciate the more liberal DCPS policy may want to consider before calling for changes.

[Anonymous]

Wow. I assumed that DCPS schools would notify parents if any student in their kids class got Covid.

Our charter notifies, and I assumed it was standard protocol in all schools. I don’t get why this is not the case?

[Anonymous]

OMG yes. Thank you for posting this. I cannot believe the Chancellor said this was happening because DCPS clearly wasn’t doing it.

I emailed my council members.

Why the heck did DCPS lie about this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

Many schools do not have this.

DCPS central appears to intentionally try to make it hard for parents to communicate with each other.

Didn’t someone send an article around a few months ago about how the Chancellor attended some Broad training that includes advice on how to make parents feel like you’re asking for their advice while trying to prevent parents from organizing and talking to teacher groups?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our charter notifies and the full class quarantines for 7-10 days. No mask or close contact exceptions. I'm okay with this but those who appreciate the more liberal DCPS policy may want to consider before calling for changes.

Ha, at our charter the whole GRADE quarantines. It's bananas, and I hate it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

Many schools do not have this.

DCPS central appears to intentionally try to make it hard for parents to communicate with each other.

Didn’t someone send an article around a few months ago about how the Chancellor attended some Broad training that includes advice on how to make parents feel like you’re asking for their advice while trying to prevent parents from organizing and talking to teacher groups?

Now that I have seen close up how a persistent group of parents or “neighbors” can completely dominate a situation with uniformed and self-centered demands, I fully understand and support training on how to effectively deal with them. If only the Council had that training.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

Many schools do not have this.

DCPS central appears to intentionally try to make it hard for parents to communicate with each other.

Didn’t someone send an article around a few months ago about how the Chancellor attended some Broad training that includes advice on how to make parents feel like you’re asking for their advice while trying to prevent parents from organizing and talking to teacher groups?

Good lord. There are some total parent wack jobs at my kids’ school. I wouldn’t want them to have my personal email address or contact info.