When someone at school tests positive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to the DC library - pick up 5 of the home tests and do tests every Friday.

This. Everyone should be doing this.

Really smart suggestion. Thank you!

Can only get one per person at a time and need the prior to be used to get another for the same person. They aren’t just handing them out like skittles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to the DC library - pick up 5 of the home tests and do tests every Friday.

This. Everyone should be doing this.

Really smart suggestion. Thank you!

Can only get one per person at a time and need the prior to be used to get another for the same person. They aren’t just handing them out like skittles

That's absolutely not true. We have probably 10 at home because they keep giving us a handful every time we drop off a test. Have gotten them from various locations in NW. And you have to drop them off the same day you register them. You open the package and enter the serial number on the testing website. You can hold onto the tests indefinitely as long as you don't register the serial number.

[Anonymous]

According to this, you'll be notified if the positive was in your class, even if your child wasn't a "close contact"

https://dcpsreopenstrong.com/health/

[Anonymous]

Let me ask you this, if you find out a kid in the class is positive but not a close contact, what would you do about it? Do you immediately test? If if comes back negative, do you send them back the next day?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to find out that when someone tests positive at the school, you're only informed that a positive case happened. As long as it's determined that masks were worn, if your child was in the same classroom as the positive person for 8 hours you won't know, even if they were literally sitting side by side (3-feet rule doesn't count as close contact anymore if masks are on).

I'd like to know if someone in my child's class tests positive so I can make the determination on whether to send my child in the next day or not. It's insane to me that we're being kept in the dark.

This happened yesterday.

OK but wouldn't you want to test your kid even if it's someone in a different class? Maybe they sat together for lunch or chatted in the bathroom or hallway?

Omg no. Do you have any idea how many notifications there are likely to be this fall? I got a notification yesterday and I am absolutely 100% not testing my kid. Because it wasn’t in their class and we weren’t otherwise IDed as a close contact. However, school notifications WILL tell you when the case is in your kid’s class even if not a close contact. In those circumstances, I will test.

This is incorrect. Look at the guidelines provided by DCPS. https://dcpsreopenstrong.com/health/

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Anonymous wrote:According to this, you'll be notified if the positive was in your class, even if your child wasn't a "close contact"

https://dcpsreopenstrong.com/health/

Where exactly does it say that? I don't see it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me ask you this, if you find out a kid in the class is positive but not a close contact, what would you do about it? Do you immediately test? If if comes back negative, do you send them back the next day?

I would test. And I would also keep my child home for the rest of that week just in case there are other asymptomatic (or symptomatic) infected kids in the same class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to this, you'll be notified if the positive was in your class, even if your child wasn't a "close contact"

https://dcpsreopenstrong.com/health/

Where exactly does it say that? I don't see it.

In the blue boxes under "Covid 19 reporting protocols" toward the end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me ask you this, if you find out a kid in the class is positive but not a close contact, what would you do about it? Do you immediately test? If if comes back negative, do you send them back the next day?

I would keep them home for 5 days and take the unexcused absences. Other cases will be turning up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to this, you'll be notified if the positive was in your class, even if your child wasn't a "close contact"

https://dcpsreopenstrong.com/health/

Where exactly does it say that? I don't see it.

In the blue boxes under "Covid 19 reporting protocols" toward the end.

Oh, I see the graphic now, thanks! But that's strange, because the text says "If a positive COVID-19 case presents in a classroom, the number of students impacted as close contact will vary based on whether the classroom can be arranged to ensure 3-feet of distancing or not..." then it goes into what's defined as close contact. Our principal said we'd be notified if our child had "close contact" with the infected person. Sounds like it needs some clarity.

[Anonymous]

If you don’t like the protocols, you’ll need to make other arrangements for your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to the DC library - pick up 5 of the home tests and do tests every Friday.

This. Everyone should be doing this.

You have to administer and send in the test on the day you pick it up. just fyi.

No you don't. You have to submit the test the day you take it, but you don't have to administer the test the day you pick it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to the DC library - pick up 5 of the home tests and do tests every Friday.

This. Everyone should be doing this.

Really smart suggestion. Thank you!

Can only get one per person at a time and need the prior to be used to get another for the same person. They aren’t just handing them out like skittles

I took a handful the last time I was at the library.

[Anonymous]

This is because DCPS intentionally changed the CDC definition of a close contact in order to avoid having to quarantine kids.

And it’s one of the big reasons this year is going to be a Covid shitshow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to this, you'll be notified if the positive was in your class, even if your child wasn't a "close contact"

https://dcpsreopenstrong.com/health/

Where exactly does it say that? I don't see it.

Nope. Because they added in “OR if there were other mitigation strategies” eg HVAC upgrades.

They are not going to tell anyone, folks.