Schools with positive cases thread - post here

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS is not being honest with the number of students or staff quarantining. At my school a class was shut down due to covid exposure. None of the staff was informed. The special teachers didn’t even know. It’s also not appearing on the reopen strong website.

DCPS is, and always will be, about optics as long as it is under mayoral control. This is in regards to COVID rates, graduation rates, grades, suspensions, etc. They do not care about actual data about actual safety or learning.

much better than an elected school board filled with 5 different grandstanding blowhards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS is not being honest with the number of students or staff quarantining. At my school a class was shut down due to covid exposure. None of the staff was informed. The special teachers didn’t even know. It’s also not appearing on the reopen strong website.

“Due to Covid exposure.” Well, if the teacher was not vaccinated and was a close contact of a positive, guess what? The whole class suddenly needs to go remote and there is nothing to remote unless and until the teacher tests positive. So, perfectly good explanation and also a perfect example of why teachers need to be vaccinated and are selfish, irresponsible ****** if they are not

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS is not being honest with the number of students or staff quarantining. At my school a class was shut down due to covid exposure. None of the staff was informed. The special teachers didn’t even know. It’s also not appearing on the reopen strong website.

“Due to Covid exposure.” Well, if the teacher was not vaccinated and was a close contact of a positive, guess what? The whole class suddenly needs to go remote and there is nothing to remote unless and until the teacher tests positive. So, perfectly good explanation and also a perfect example of why teachers need to be vaccinated and are selfish, irresponsible ****** if they are not

Nothing to REPORT*

[Anonymous]

I agree that the situation is not great, but dispersing the responsibility via a school board would probably make things worse. DCPS did in fact manage to reopen due to public pressure at least.

[Anonymous]

One thing my kid's school seems to be facing is that children are getting sick (or getting contact traced to a non-school close contact with COVID), testing positive, staying home for the 10-day quarantine period, and THEN notifying the school when the kid is cleared to return to school.

It seems like whatever integration between the school and the health department that should be in place is not working properly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing my kid's school seems to be facing is that children are getting sick (or getting contact traced to a non-school close contact with COVID), testing positive, staying home for the 10-day quarantine period, and THEN notifying the school when the kid is cleared to return to school.

It seems like whatever integration between the school and the health department that should be in place is not working properly.

Health department isn’t allowed to notify schools of a particular case... schools can only tell the health department because parents consented to that in the opt out forms. But there aren’t similar agreements between the health department and parents...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, at this stage some might feel better just testing their kids every other day. I'm not judging that choice. I'm just saying that is the only thing in your control.

You KNOW DCPS isn't going to get it together. Some of you suspect this is a deliberate cover-up. Aside from writing to your reps, the near-term solution is testing frequently.

Call your council member and tell them that DCPS needs a better testing plan stat. Council has the authority to fix this.

Best of luck if your council member is Charles Allen. He will listen and so what he does best- nothing!

I thought that was Janeese George's niche. After she gives a quote like "this is bad" or "we don't have a plan".

Oh but at least there is a listening - McDuffie doesn't even pretend to hear you, and then he just says something along the lines of "Black parents want kids to stay home so let's all go virtual!"

McDuffie didn’t sign Henderson’s letter on mandatory vaccinations for DCPS employees either.