COVID cases at school record

[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.

It’s a 15 minute job PER Covid case.

They also send an email with calculated return date to parents

Look up all the classes/teachers of the students and send them an email with return info/stream info

Put the case in the system for FCPS to track

Update the students attendance

[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.

A mask isn’t stopping this.

+1

You people are so against masks. Rates were not this high in schools when masks were required.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

You people are so against masks. Rates were not this high in schools when masks were required.

Nope. Not against. Just “for” the choice to make for myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

You people are so against masks. Rates were not this high in schools when masks were required.

Nope. Not against. Just “for” the choice to make for myself.

To be fair, there was no school for 3 weeks during the omicron peak. And if you look at the dashboard, cases have just barely surpassed the prior peak before the holiday break began.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

You people are so against masks. Rates were not this high in schools when masks were required.

Nope. Not against. Just “for” the choice to make for myself.

To be fair, there was no school for 3 weeks during the omicron peak. And if you look at the dashboard, cases have just barely surpassed the prior peak before the holiday break began.

*responding to the prior PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

You people are so against masks. Rates were not this high in schools when masks were required.

luckily, its a moot point, although during omicron schools were closed for Christmas and the suspiciously long week of snow days.

[Anonymous]

My school never says how many. We got an outbreak e-mail today but it didn’t give the number of students.

Why the hell doesn’t a school go back to wearing masks when there is a known outbreak? It’s nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My school never says how many. We got an outbreak e-mail today but it didn’t give the number of students.

Why the hell doesn’t a school go back to wearing masks when there is a known outbreak? It’s nuts.

Because chap Peterson and other state legislators made it impossible for schools to mandate masks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My school never says how many. We got an outbreak e-mail today but it didn’t give the number of students.

Why the hell doesn’t a school go back to wearing masks when there is a known outbreak? It’s nuts.

Because chap Peterson and other state legislators made it impossible for schools to mandate masks!

Ummm yeah, they aren’t allowed to force masks, it’s not the school’s fault. However, I teach elementary and my class has an outbreak. Most of my students are back to wearing masks and we sent everyone home with a rapid test today.

[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.

The COVID case manager at our school was helpful for us. Our DD tested positive recently and with all of the changing guidance (and we got inaccurate info from VA DOH), it was useful to receive a call from the case manager telling us exactly what we needed to do in terms of isolation, testing, tracing, etc. according to whatever the current guidances were at the time

[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.

I e seen our case manager sit outside the cares room for hours waiting for parent pick-up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:29 at Lake Braddock today, almost 100 last week.

I don't know why they send this when nothing will change, no masks, no testing.

It allows individual families decide if they want to take more/less precautions. I would guess we ditch this reporting in the Fall.

What precaution can I take? I can't just keep them at home? I encourage hand washing and sanitizing, but they're unmasked at lunch as they should be.

what is there to do? Why tell us the numbers with no action?

You can mask, upgrade your mask, test your family regularly. You can't be in a zero covid zone, it's just not where we are from a public health perspective. None of us wants COVID no matter how cavalier some of these anti-mask parents sound. We are trying to keep people out of hospitals - the best way to do that is to get vaccinated and mask up. You need to let go what Larla's family is doing. We are not going to close down schools or require masks again.

But covid has evolved into a cold now.

We need to follow the UKs lead. Not China's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:29 at Lake Braddock today, almost 100 last week.

I don't know why they send this when nothing will change, no masks, no testing.

It allows individual families decide if they want to take more/less precautions. I would guess we ditch this reporting in the Fall.

What precaution can I take? I can't just keep them at home? I encourage hand washing and sanitizing, but they're unmasked at lunch as they should be.

what is there to do? Why tell us the numbers with no action?

You can mask, upgrade your mask, test your family regularly. You can't be in a zero covid zone, it's just not where we are from a public health perspective. None of us wants COVID no matter how cavalier some of these anti-mask parents sound. We are trying to keep people out of hospitals - the best way to do that is to get vaccinated and mask up. You need to let go what Larla's family is doing. We are not going to close down schools or require masks again.

But covid has evolved into a cold now.

We need to follow the UKs lead. Not China's.

For some it’s a cold. For others it’s still deadly. Which one will you be? Too bad we can’t foresee the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:29 at Lake Braddock today, almost 100 last week.

I don't know why they send this when nothing will change, no masks, no testing.

It allows individual families decide if they want to take more/less precautions. I would guess we ditch this reporting in the Fall.

What precaution can I take? I can't just keep them at home? I encourage hand washing and sanitizing, but they're unmasked at lunch as they should be.

what is there to do? Why tell us the numbers with no action?

You can mask, upgrade your mask, test your family regularly. You can't be in a zero covid zone, it's just not where we are from a public health perspective. None of us wants COVID no matter how cavalier some of these anti-mask parents sound. We are trying to keep people out of hospitals - the best way to do that is to get vaccinated and mask up. You need to let go what Larla's family is doing. We are not going to close down schools or require masks again.

But covid has evolved into a cold now.

We need to follow the UKs lead. Not China's.

The current variant is mild for most but hospital rates are rising locally. But COVID has not “evolved” into a cold. New variants could be much more severe again. And new variants are coming much more quickly than predicted and not helped by the uncontrolled spread that we have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:29 at Lake Braddock today, almost 100 last week.

I don't know why they send this when nothing will change, no masks, no testing.

It allows individual families decide if they want to take more/less precautions. I would guess we ditch this reporting in the Fall.

What precaution can I take? I can't just keep them at home? I encourage hand washing and sanitizing, but they're unmasked at lunch as they should be.

what is there to do? Why tell us the numbers with no action?

You can mask, upgrade your mask, test your family regularly. You can't be in a zero covid zone, it's just not where we are from a public health perspective. None of us wants COVID no matter how cavalier some of these anti-mask parents sound. We are trying to keep people out of hospitals - the best way to do that is to get vaccinated and mask up. You need to let go what Larla's family is doing. We are not going to close down schools or require masks again.

But covid has evolved into a cold now.

We need to follow the UKs lead. Not China's.

The current variant is mild for most but hospital rates are rising locally. But COVID has not “evolved” into a cold. New variants could be much more severe again. And new variants are coming much more quickly than predicted and not helped by the uncontrolled spread that we have.

The uncontrolled spread creates better immunity.

Viruses evolve milder so they can continue. Eventually they make people sick but stop killing the hosts. We are there.

To treat covid like it is still 2020, or like communist China, is unscientific and damaging to society.

Covid has become a mild cold.

Acting like it is anything else, with long quarantines and keeping not sick kids and teachers out of school simply over a positive covid test is just wrong.