ACPS is a covid cluster

[Anonymous]

ACPS has the worse mitiation strategies in place and a high risk school age population. Besides being a crappy school system they have a terrible administration running the show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it lots of cases or are they overquarantining?

ACPS is both doing too little mitigation and over-quarantining at the same time. The Alexandria Health Department is requiring longer quarantines that even the CDC recommends, with no ability to shorten for a negative test at any point in the two weeks (CDC says that is an option).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it lots of cases or are they overquarantining?

ACPS is both doing too little mitigation and over-quarantining at the same time. The Alexandria Health Department is requiring longer quarantines that even the CDC recommends, with no ability to shorten for a negative test at any point in the two weeks (CDC says that is an option).

Have a quarantined child right now. Have a high schooler whose science teacher said that the vaccine is similar to the (very racist and horrific) experiments the government performed on the black community in the early 20th century - needless to say there is a lot of vaccine hesitancy in the community. ACPS is not inclined - at all - to require vaccination. The definition of close contact is someone in the same class - regardless of mask-wearing and whether positive child was/is symptomatic. It is a mess!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ACPS is very small. They have 15,000 students total. The Arlington Catholic school system is bigger than ACPS. FCPS has 189,000 students and 25,000 employees. APS has 90,000 students.

ACPS is still doing poorer than any of these and you would think with such a small district that they could. But their crappy reporting is something.

You're way off on the APS numbers. There are around 28,000 students in APS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it lots of cases or are they overquarantining?

ACPS is both doing too little mitigation and over-quarantining at the same time. The Alexandria Health Department is requiring longer quarantines that even the CDC recommends, with no ability to shorten for a negative test at any point in the two weeks (CDC says that is an option).

Have a quarantined child right now. Have a high schooler whose science teacher said that the vaccine is similar to the (very racist and horrific) experiments the government performed on the black community in the early 20th century - needless to say there is a lot of vaccine hesitancy in the community. ACPS is not inclined - at all - to require vaccination. The definition of close contact is someone in the same class - regardless of mask-wearing and whether positive child was/is symptomatic. It is a mess!

I actually thought they were under-notifying. I know kids in a class with a positive case who aren’t quarantining and weren’t officially notified because they weren’t considered a close contact (based on spacing and mask wearing). Also heard that kids on the same bus aren’t considered a close contact since they’re in masks, which seems completely ludicrous. I’d want to know if my kid rode a bus with a positive person so we can test. Maybe they’re just being totally inconsistent. This isn’t going to end well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ACPS is very small. They have 15,000 students total. The Arlington Catholic school system is bigger than ACPS. FCPS has 189,000 students and 25,000 employees. APS has 90,000 students.

ACPS is still doing poorer than any of these and you would think with such a small district that they could. But their crappy reporting is something.

You're way off on the APS numbers. There are around 28,000 students in APS

Thank you for clarifying. I was wondering how Aps had 1/2 as many students and 1/5 the population of FAirfax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ACPS is very small. They have 15,000 students total. The Arlington Catholic school system is bigger than ACPS. FCPS has 189,000 students and 25,000 employees. APS has 90,000 students.

ACPS is still doing poorer than any of these and you would think with such a small district that they could. But their crappy reporting is something.

You're way off on the APS numbers. There are around 28,000 students in APS

Still twice the size of ACPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it lots of cases or are they overquarantining?

ACPS is both doing too little mitigation and over-quarantining at the same time. The Alexandria Health Department is requiring longer quarantines that even the CDC recommends, with no ability to shorten for a negative test at any point in the two weeks (CDC says that is an option).

Have a quarantined child right now. Have a high schooler whose science teacher said that the vaccine is similar to the (very racist and horrific) experiments the government performed on the black community in the early 20th century - needless to say there is a lot of vaccine hesitancy in the community. ACPS is not inclined - at all - to require vaccination. The definition of close contact is someone in the same class - regardless of mask-wearing and whether positive child was/is symptomatic. It is a mess!

What are they doing with vaccinanted people in the class (teachers or older students)?

[Anonymous]

What is the quarantining criteria?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it lots of cases or are they overquarantining?

ACPS is both doing too little mitigation and over-quarantining at the same time. The Alexandria Health Department is requiring longer quarantines that even the CDC recommends, with no ability to shorten for a negative test at any point in the two weeks (CDC says that is an option).

Have a quarantined child right now. Have a high schooler whose science teacher said that the vaccine is similar to the (very racist and horrific) experiments the government performed on the black community in the early 20th century - needless to say there is a lot of vaccine hesitancy in the community. ACPS is not inclined - at all - to require vaccination. The definition of close contact is someone in the same class - regardless of mask-wearing and whether positive child was/is symptomatic. It is a mess!

What are they doing with vaccinanted people in the class (teachers or older students)?

No quarantine for vaccinated. Unfortunately, quarantined child is too young.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

What is the quarantining criteria?

"When AHD learns of a COVID-19 case who resides in the City of Alexandria, they contact the individual directly to provide guidance and to identify close contacts. Close contacts are people who were within 6 feet of the case during their infectious period for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period or people who had direct exposure to the case’s respiratory secretions. We are collaborating with AHD to identify and reach out to close contacts at the location during this timeframe."

Quarantine for 14 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What is the quarantining criteria?

"When AHD learns of a COVID-19 case who resides in the City of Alexandria, they contact the individual directly to provide guidance and to identify close contacts. Close contacts are people who were within 6 feet of the case during their infectious period for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period or people who had direct exposure to the case’s respiratory secretions. We are collaborating with AHD to identify and reach out to close contacts at the location during this timeframe."

Quarantine for 14 days.

There is no differentiation between vaccinated and unvaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What is the quarantining criteria?

"When AHD learns of a COVID-19 case who resides in the City of Alexandria, they contact the individual directly to provide guidance and to identify close contacts. Close contacts are people who were within 6 feet of the case during their infectious period for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period or people who had direct exposure to the case’s respiratory secretions. We are collaborating with AHD to identify and reach out to close contacts at the location during this timeframe."

Quarantine for 14 days.

There is a K-12 exception:

A close contact is anyone who is within 6 ft or less of the person with COVID for 15 minutes or more in a 24 hour period.
In indoor K-12 settings, a student who is within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student is not considered a close contact as long as both students are wearing masks and the school has other prevention strategies in place.
This exception does not apply to teachers, staff, or other adults in indoor K-12 settings.
The following individuals do not need to quarantine, even if they are identified as a close contact:
Individuals who were fully vaccinated at the time they were exposed.
Individuals who had COVID-19 within the last 90 days of their exposure.

https://www.acps.k12.va.us/domain/1607

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What is the quarantining criteria?

"When AHD learns of a COVID-19 case who resides in the City of Alexandria, they contact the individual directly to provide guidance and to identify close contacts. Close contacts are people who were within 6 feet of the case during their infectious period for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period or people who had direct exposure to the case’s respiratory secretions. We are collaborating with AHD to identify and reach out to close contacts at the location during this timeframe."

Quarantine for 14 days.

There is a K-12 exception:

A close contact is anyone who is within 6 ft or less of the person with COVID for 15 minutes or more in a 24 hour period.
In indoor K-12 settings, a student who is within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student is not considered a close contact as long as both students are wearing masks and the school has other prevention strategies in place.
This exception does not apply to teachers, staff, or other adults in indoor K-12 settings.
The following individuals do not need to quarantine, even if they are identified as a close contact:
Individuals who were fully vaccinated at the time they were exposed.
Individuals who had COVID-19 within the last 90 days of their exposure.

https://www.acps.k12.va.us/domain/1607

Poster with quarantined child. Interestingly, when I asked the health department about the masks the person said, "masks cannot be trusted" and that they are not considered mitigating for younger students.

[Anonymous]

If numbers aren’t out yet, on what basis are you making this claim OP?