Covid at SFS

[Anonymous]

The SFS administration has been dealing with a lot. I get it. But the communications have been inconsistent and confusing. This example highlights it. I wish they would get their act together.

[Anonymous]

Our kid's Head of School sends a letter to all faculty, staff, parents and students for each case and also gives full details of the contact trace performed by his Medical oversight team- this maintains trust- and the school has had ZERO faculty quit or " take leave" as some HOS refer to it.

Personally, I think leaving it to parents to check a website is weak. A HOS role is where the buck stops- in my opinion parents and teachers have a right to demand that they be transparent and accountable. Certainly for the 850K a year they are paid- 70K a month- they can send an email for each case and let the families decide their own risk and make their own decisions.

" sorry, the dashboard crashed" is really lame for someone paid 85 K a month of your tuition money

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just checked the dashboard. There's no update. In fact, it looks like it's down since I can't access any of the data.

Check your browser. Works for me. 3 new cases in past week.

Oh really? Dashboard only reflects most recent update. Any more info? Which grades or cohorts? All US?

[Anonymous]

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

Our school sends a school-wide email if someone found to be positive had been on campus and m/ or potentially exposed others in the school community. But posts in dashboard if it was only a contact of a student/ staff and the student m/ staff in question tested negative but is quarantining for 14 days, for example.

I think strikes a good balance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school sends a school-wide email if someone found to be positive had been on campus and m/ or potentially exposed others in the school community. But posts in dashboard if it was only a contact of a student/ staff and the student m/ staff in question tested negative but is quarantining for 14 days, for example.

I think strikes a good balance.

Sidwell is not even reporting the latter (contact but but quarantine), and only reporting the actual positives. Unclear how widely they are reporting the positives. They certainly did not send any schoolwide message. I get half a dozen emails a day from the school on various topics, but apparently mentioning that a student tested positive isn’t as important to mention as such pressing topics as middle school sporting events or parents association meetings.

[Anonymous]

Literally every thread like this citing a so called reliable source is just stirring up gossip to trash dc privates. Ignore the trolls.

[Anonymous]

Not a troll. Student tested positive. Stop being so defensive. Every school is going to go thru this. How they handle it matters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Heard from a reliable source that there is a positive case at SFS but we've haven't been notified by the school. Am I supposed to send my DC to school or not? Quarantine? Meanwhile I see on this site that other schools email their community, quarantine cohorts and discuss mitigation procedures.
What is going on?

Troll.

The protocol is clear and easy to follow. Cohorts around the country and world have been managing them just fine.

Find something else to spazz out about.

[Anonymous]

Your kid is not in the cohort then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Literally every thread like this citing a so called reliable source is just stirring up gossip to trash dc privates. Ignore the trolls.

WTF? Why so hostile? The school's dashboard shows a positive student case yesterday. Amazing to me how knowing zero about a topic does not prevent some like you from arguing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Literally every thread like this citing a so called reliable source is just stirring up gossip to trash dc privates. Ignore the trolls.

WTF? Why so hostile? The school's dashboard shows a positive student case yesterday. Amazing to me how knowing zero about a topic does not prevent some like you from arguing.

If you haven't heard about it, then your kid is not impacted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school sends a school-wide email if someone found to be positive had been on campus and m/ or potentially exposed others in the school community. But posts in dashboard if it was only a contact of a student/ staff and the student m/ staff in question tested negative but is quarantining for 14 days, for example.

I think strikes a good balance.

Sidwell is not even reporting the latter (contact but but quarantine), and only reporting the actual positives. Unclear how widely they are reporting the positives. They certainly did not send any schoolwide message. I get half a dozen emails a day from the school on various topics, but apparently mentioning that a student tested positive isn’t as important to mention as such pressing topics as middle school sporting events or parents association meetings.

Why should they send a school-wide message for every single positive? If you're in LS, on a separate campus, is it relevant to know that someone in the US tested positive with the immediacy of an email? They're not hiding the data, but I'm happy not to get another email saying "positive test" when it's not relevant because of lack of contact.

[Anonymous]

PP followup - here's what the school says:

"Unless instructed by local public health departments to send a separate communication to the entire community about a positive case, we will use the Testing Dashboard to share information about positivity rates in our School community. Any student or employee who was in close contact* with a confirmed positive case will be notified by the public health department and/or Sidwell Friends Health Services. "

"* Close contact: a person who has been less than six feet from a person with a confirmed case for longer than 15 minutes, irrespective of whether the contact was wearing respiratory PPE or a cloth face covering, starting from two days before illness onset (or for asymptomatic cases, two days prior to positive specimen collection)."

[Anonymous]

Thats helpful thanks.

We heard about the case last night which was why we were wondering where to find info today.

Everybody take a deep breath and treat each other well. We're in this together.