APS mask policy
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Anonymous
So in your circle, parents don’t report Covid to the school? Way to go. |
Anonymous
I love “awaiting” positives. As if it’s a done deal. Do you know how many times my kid has been a contact and never gotten it and same for many others I know. Also Nottingham is supposed to send out school wide notifications. Have they been going out about all these cases? |
Anonymous
So you are saying APS knows about cases and hides them or you’re suggesting the school admin fails to report them to larger APS or you are suggesting the parents never report the cases to the school but you know about them? Please be clear as these are all serious accusations. |
Anonymous
No, and if the kids weren’t in school for 2 days prior to their positive the principal does not report them to families. We got one email this week thst just said “several cases” but didn’t give grades or even classes. All of this info about who is out is coming from friends. The principal doesn’t want her stats to look bad, but it seems we have an outbreak at Nottingham. If you have uploaded your child’s vaccine info into the portal, then you are not a close contact and will not be contacted. Imo, and including my family, once one kid got covid, the whole family did. That’s what I mean by awaiting positives. |
Anonymous
| How many are unmasked at Nottingham? |
Anonymous
Wow. A lot going on in this post. 1 If the kids weren't in school for 2 days prior to their positive, the child wouldn't have been in school when they were considered contagious by CDC. Your principal is following CDC close contact protocols. That's like saying you should have been notified of all the kids who got covid over winter break. Your principal has no obligation to tell the school community that information. Why would you need to know that? 2. I don't think the stats make any principals look "bad". The principal does not cause anyone to get covid. Also, an outbreak would be occurring at Nottingham if multiple kids in one classroom got it from each other while at school. Perhaps that happened. But also perhaps, multiple kids at Nottingham got Covid. You're calling it an outbreak when you have no actual information that is what is going on. 3. You can be (and are) contacted as a close contact if you are a close contact. If you are a vaccinated close contact, you just don't need to quarantine. But you still are contacted. 4. The vast majority of kids who are close contacts at school are not getting covid from these exposures. I think it remains to be seen if that will still be the case if a lot of the kids are unmasked. So in conclusion, if you have FACTS that 5 unmasked kids in one Nottingham classroom all gave each other covid at school and it's an outbreak, definitely come back and let us know. |
Anonymous
This is a lot of dangerous assumptions and also totally inappropriate. My kid did this in her classroom with a bunch of her buddies. Susie is out so she must have covid. The teacher pulled them all aside and told them to stop. Susie wasn't out from covid. And also stop. I reinforced this message with my child at home when told what happened. There is a cold going around. You have ZERO IDEA why kids might be out and you are gossiping. |
Anonymous
| The assertion was actually "more than 5" cases at Nottingham. And "tons" of cases at Nottingham. |
Anonymous
If you don’t test you’re never positive 😁 |
Anonymous
I love how the Covid deniers who have ZERO IDEA what is going on at Nottingham come on here to tell the actual Nottingham parent that it must be just a cold. |
Anonymous
So much to unpack here. 2. If you think the Nottingham principal doesn't care about these stats then you don't know the Nottingham principal. 3. APS contact tracing is a joke. Many close contacts are not being contacted. They should be, but that does not mean that is actually what is happening. 4. Agree that so far most close contacts at school didn't get Covid but that's when both were masked. Could look very different now especially if the Covid positive kid is unmasked. And yes there are cases with positive unmasked kids. It takes VDH weeks to officially classify an outbreak as an outbreak, but those close to it can usually tell much sooner. You don't think 5 cases in one small school the week after masks came off are significant? |
Anonymous
I know why the kids are out because my friends, their parents, told me. |
Anonymous
It sounds like you have a principal problem not a covid problem. Caring about the stats to the point of intentionally manipulating them, which is what you are implying, would clearly be a problem. Our school admin does the contact tracing. It hasn't been a joke at all. Again, if you're principal isn't doing this or having staff do this, you have a principal problem. Do you know factually that 5 kids had/have covid? Or is this what you've stitched together from your pals who are reporting what kids are out of school? And yes, it's possible that 5 cases in a school with hundreds of people are not related. It could be 2 sets of siblings and one other case. Point is, you don't know. You'd need to know if the kids were in any kind of contact AT SCHOOL WHILE CONTAGIOUS to get to the point of calling it an outbreak. Contact tracing actually follows a logical process. It's not just panic and assumptions. Earlier in Omicron, my elementary definitely had 5 cases over the course of a week and it wasn't an outbreak. As I stated earlier, it could be an outbreak and in that case Arlington Public Health should and will get directly involved as those are the situations they make a priority. But so far you've presented nothing other than hearsay. |
Anonymous
Okay, so you know for a fact that 5 kids in the same classroom all got covid this week and the Nottingham principal is covering this up. I would sincerely call Arlington Public Health immediately. Call the County's covid line right now. 703-228-7999. |
Anonymous
| Hey I know two kids that won’t be at Nottingham tomorrow. They’ll be in Disney – but let the Covid rumors run rampant. |