DCPS letters of close contact make no sense

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Source please?

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

This is lower than my kids pediatrician which had a 5.4% positive rate this past week.

You’re comparing two totally different numbers.

[Anonymous]

Our kids are in a DC charter, not DCPS, but the “close contact” thing is not giving me a lot of confidence. We get the mass emails home that say x-number of kids in our kids’ grades tested positive, and that, if we haven’t heard personally from the school, our kids are not close contacts. Last week, DD’s best friend and classmate tested positive and she’s spending the week in quarantine. We never heard from the school. I have no idea who they consider “close contacts” if not our kids’ closest friends. (Amazingly, dd has not tested positive.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our kids are in a DC charter, not DCPS, but the “close contact” thing is not giving me a lot of confidence. We get the mass emails home that say x-number of kids in our kids’ grades tested positive, and that, if we haven’t heard personally from the school, our kids are not close contacts. Last week, DD’s best friend and classmate tested positive and she’s spending the week in quarantine. We never heard from the school. I have no idea who they consider “close contacts” if not our kids’ closest friends. (Amazingly, dd has not tested positive.)

In DCPS they are very narrow in their definition of close contact. It’s only by proximity when seated. They don’t take into consideration mask wearing or non compliance with staying seated. We had ONE kid not have to quarantine from a class and it was the worst kid for mask wearing/staying distanced. The parents kept them home anyway. I think they are trying to make it seem like less exposures. So far we haven’t heard of any positives from those quarantined kids so hopefully they really aren’t spreading it.