COVID cases at school record

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wish chap Peterson hadn’t made a state law that prevents districts from reinstating mask mandates. It was such a stupid law. We knew we would have additional surges and the state made an important strategy unavailable.

If the NOVA school districts hadn't so dramatically overreacted in 2020-21, laws wouldn't have been necessary.

I agree. Thank god we have that law or the school board would have been hemming and hawing and wringing their hands all year about masks. Its nice that there's a law they have to follow, saves so much time and drama.

I agree.

ES Teacher

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PP and ask if your school has hired a Covid case manager. You may be shocked to learn that your school does not have anyone in charge of monitoring cases. Also ask if the school has a Care Room to semi isolate students who are sick with Covid symptoms. Again, some schools send sick students to a back hallway or to the front office or some multiple sick students like 5-6 to all sit together in a small room.

It’s a shit show out there

Are you telling me FCPS is spending precious school dollars paying for "covid case managers" at individual schools? That's insane. What purpose do they serve at this point?

Our school hired a part-time covid case manager to handle the increased number of students who are out with covid. Previously the principal was doing it - with the addition of the case manager, the principal could focus on her job instead of handling the covid students too.

What's there to "handle"?

All the money spent on these case managers could have been used for tutoring, something actually beneficial to students.

It never would have gone there. Administrators as a self-interested class are hoarders. They find ways to keep the money from trickling down.

[Anonymous]

We don’t have a Covid case manager at our large ES, but the Covid safety monitor still comes in. I don’t know what she could possibly be looking for. She sits in the cafeteria or lobby and looks board to death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish chap Peterson hadn’t made a state law that prevents districts from reinstating mask mandates. It was such a stupid law. We knew we would have additional surges and the state made an important strategy unavailable.

A mask isn’t stopping this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don’t have a Covid case manager at our large ES, but the Covid safety monitor still comes in. I don’t know what she could possibly be looking for. She sits in the cafeteria or lobby and looks board to death.

PP here.
Sorry. “Bored”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish chap Peterson hadn’t made a state law that prevents districts from reinstating mask mandates. It was such a stupid law. We knew we would have additional surges and the state made an important strategy unavailable.

A mask isn’t stopping this.

+1

[Anonymous]

Our mindset is way behind other areas and other schools which is why everyone is freaking out. No one is batting an eye at a surge because they’ve been maskless all year and went to school LAST year. We are behind so now people want the schools rushing back to masks or whatever makes them feel better about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too bad the governor didn't require schools open in person full time last fall. Would have solved so many problems.

Yes. Teachers getting covid before vaccines were available and the resulting life-long health problems. Would have been great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don’t have a Covid case manager at our large ES, but the Covid safety monitor still comes in. I don’t know what she could possibly be looking for. She sits in the cafeteria or lobby and looks board to death.

It's very weird that the safety people are still coming. Have they ever disclosed any of their findings? I was in person in October 2020 when they were onsite regularly and they didn't tell us anything then either.

[Anonymous]

The Covid case manager is to:

-monitor and supervise the school assigned and administered care room where students sick with Covid like illness are sent to await parent pick up. This can have multiple students at any one time. Some schools have 2 designated care rooms.

-complete FCPS Covid like illness form outlining symptoms

-give parent free Covid testing kit with another form outlying FCPS requirements for return to school

-answer any questions about return to school

-track and collect any and all data shared involving each student sent home or absent from school with Covid like illness

-participate in joint health department and school system meetings about Covid in the community

- track and report potential outbreaks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Covid case manager is to:

-monitor and supervise the school assigned and administered care room where students sick with Covid like illness are sent to await parent pick up. This can have multiple students at any one time. Some schools have 2 designated care rooms.

-complete FCPS Covid like illness form outlining symptoms

-give parent free Covid testing kit with another form outlying FCPS requirements for return to school

-answer any questions about return to school

-track and collect any and all data shared involving each student sent home or absent from school with Covid like illness

-participate in joint health department and school system meetings about Covid in the community

- track and report potential outbreaks

Seems like a 15 minute a day type job that could be done by one of the many office staff or the aide in the nurse's office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Covid case manager is to:

-monitor and supervise the school assigned and administered care room where students sick with Covid like illness are sent to await parent pick up. This can have multiple students at any one time. Some schools have 2 designated care rooms.

-complete FCPS Covid like illness form outlining symptoms

-give parent free Covid testing kit with another form outlying FCPS requirements for return to school

-answer any questions about return to school

-track and collect any and all data shared involving each student sent home or absent from school with Covid like illness

-participate in joint health department and school system meetings about Covid in the community

- track and report potential outbreaks

Seems like a 15 minute a day type job that could be done by one of the many office staff or the aide in the nurse's office.

Up until a week or two ago, it was. Then it became a much larger job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish chap Peterson hadn’t made a state law that prevents districts from reinstating mask mandates. It was such a stupid law. We knew we would have additional surges and the state made an important strategy unavailable.

A mask isn’t stopping this.

+1

-1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Covid case manager is to:

-monitor and supervise the school assigned and administered care room where students sick with Covid like illness are sent to await parent pick up. This can have multiple students at any one time. Some schools have 2 designated care rooms.

-complete FCPS Covid like illness form outlining symptoms

-give parent free Covid testing kit with another form outlying FCPS requirements for return to school

-answer any questions about return to school

-track and collect any and all data shared involving each student sent home or absent from school with Covid like illness

-participate in joint health department and school system meetings about Covid in the community

- track and report potential outbreaks

Seems like a 15 minute a day type job that could be done by one of the many office staff or the aide in the nurse's office.

Up until a week or two ago, it was. Then it became a much larger job.

It's a big job now at our school! And during the downtimes our case manager would do things like take over lunch monitoring, sub, whatever extra needed to be done during the down times so that teachers could be freed up to fill the gaps elsewhere. It was useful to have a "floater" when so many people are out and this was an allowed way to use the pandemic funding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Covid case manager is to:

-monitor and supervise the school assigned and administered care room where students sick with Covid like illness are sent to await parent pick up. This can have multiple students at any one time. Some schools have 2 designated care rooms.

-complete FCPS Covid like illness form outlining symptoms

-give parent free Covid testing kit with another form outlying FCPS requirements for return to school

-answer any questions about return to school

-track and collect any and all data shared involving each student sent home or absent from school with Covid like illness

-participate in joint health department and school system meetings about Covid in the community

- track and report potential outbreaks

Seems like a 15 minute a day type job that could be done by one of the many office staff or the aide in the nurse's office.

Up until a week or two ago, it was. Then it became a much larger job.

It's a big job now at our school! And during the downtimes our case manager would do things like take over lunch monitoring, sub, whatever extra needed to be done during the down times so that teachers could be freed up to fill the gaps elsewhere. It was useful to have a "floater" when so many people are out and this was an allowed way to use the pandemic funding.

That's what the Covid Mgr does at our school. If no-one is in covid room, she's running around, covering classes, making copies, covering lunch etc. She is a school parent who had subbed in the past so she's known around the school.