Schools with positive cases thread - post here

[Anonymous]

John Hayden Johnson MS is having to quarantine its entire 6th grade class due to a positive case last week. Apparently all kids in the grade are considered close contacts: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/08/coronavirus-sixth-grade-class-quarantine-johnson-middle-school/

I'd be interested to know more about Covid protocols at the school because I'd like to know how all 129 6th graders got exposed (please note only 1 child tested positive -- so far no additional positives at the school so we don't know if there is any Covid spread at the school yet).

Did they eat lunch together? Or is it due to switching classes and teachers and being unable to cohort the class?

I hope no one else gets sick and that the original positive case recovers well. This must be hard on the teachers (who also have to quarantine and will be teaching remotely) and on the families. My heart goes out to them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd like for situations like these to be shared with parents:

That’s not a DCPS problem. It’s a parent problem. And one that CPS should and probably will address.

Whatever. Identical situation at my Ward 3 elementary, and needless to say, it's not the kind of parent problem, or the kind of parent that CPS will get near.

Same poster, and it certainly is a DCPS problem. DCPS promised symptomatic testing. DCPS is not testing the tweet child, after placing that child in a - covid isolation room - two consecutive days.

I sent a child to the nurse today for multiple symptoms. Child returned saying nurse was closed today. Sent to office. Child returned to class. Child said the office said they would call when the parent arrived. Whether parent arrived before or after unmasked lunch I don’t know. I do know the kids around this child weren’t wearing their mask correctly or at all most of the morning.

DCPS or DOH outsourced testing to Maxim and took away the ability of nurses to test. It makes no sense.

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE ahem. How is it *possible* that DCPS doesn’t have the ability to test kids like this with symptoms.

For real.

What kind of joke testing plan is this?!?!??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:John Hayden Johnson MS is having to quarantine its entire 6th grade class due to a positive case last week. Apparently all kids in the grade are considered close contacts: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/08/coronavirus-sixth-grade-class-quarantine-johnson-middle-school/

I'd be interested to know more about Covid protocols at the school because I'd like to know how all 129 6th graders got exposed (please note only 1 child tested positive -- so far no additional positives at the school so we don't know if there is any Covid spread at the school yet).

Did they eat lunch together? Or is it due to switching classes and teachers and being unable to cohort the class?

I hope no one else gets sick and that the original positive case recovers well. This must be hard on the teachers (who also have to quarantine and will be teaching remotely) and on the families. My heart goes out to them.

It would be useful to understand their protocols, or even if they have any. Recall the post about Shig Stars where there was a parent of a student who might have had close contact with someone who might have tested positive, so they closed the whole school.

[Anonymous]

^^Shining

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:John Hayden Johnson MS is having to quarantine its entire 6th grade class due to a positive case last week. Apparently all kids in the grade are considered close contacts: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/08/coronavirus-sixth-grade-class-quarantine-johnson-middle-school/

I'd be interested to know more about Covid protocols at the school because I'd like to know how all 129 6th graders got exposed (please note only 1 child tested positive -- so far no additional positives at the school so we don't know if there is any Covid spread at the school yet).

Did they eat lunch together? Or is it due to switching classes and teachers and being unable to cohort the class?

I hope no one else gets sick and that the original positive case recovers well. This must be hard on the teachers (who also have to quarantine and will be teaching remotely) and on the families. My heart goes out to them.

It would be useful to understand their protocols, or even if they have any. Recall the post about Shig Stars where there was a parent of a student who might have had close contact with someone who might have tested positive, so they closed the whole school.

Agreed. I think this is an area where it would be really useful to have more sharing of information (certainly a better use of our time than trying to discuss the lives of individual children who tested positive for Covid!). There's a ton of variation in protocols across the district and it would be great to have a better sense of what different schools are doing and what impact it might be having on both prevention of any Covid spread AND on finding ways to limit quarantines. They are necessary but disruptive and if there are ways to reduce them (like by cohosting MS and HS classes to some extent) I think it would benefit everyone. It's a bummer all these kids are having to stay home so soon after school starting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:John Hayden Johnson MS is having to quarantine its entire 6th grade class due to a positive case last week. Apparently all kids in the grade are considered close contacts: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/08/coronavirus-sixth-grade-class-quarantine-johnson-middle-school/

I'd be interested to know more about Covid protocols at the school because I'd like to know how all 129 6th graders got exposed (please note only 1 child tested positive -- so far no additional positives at the school so we don't know if there is any Covid spread at the school yet).

Did they eat lunch together? Or is it due to switching classes and teachers and being unable to cohort the class?

I hope no one else gets sick and that the original positive case recovers well. This must be hard on the teachers (who also have to quarantine and will be teaching remotely) and on the families. My heart goes out to them.

not sure why DCist assumes the positive is a student. Much more likely it’s a teacher or staff member in a position to be in contact with all the classes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:John Hayden Johnson MS is having to quarantine its entire 6th grade class due to a positive case last week. Apparently all kids in the grade are considered close contacts: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/08/coronavirus-sixth-grade-class-quarantine-johnson-middle-school/

I'd be interested to know more about Covid protocols at the school because I'd like to know how all 129 6th graders got exposed (please note only 1 child tested positive -- so far no additional positives at the school so we don't know if there is any Covid spread at the school yet).

Did they eat lunch together? Or is it due to switching classes and teachers and being unable to cohort the class?

I hope no one else gets sick and that the original positive case recovers well. This must be hard on the teachers (who also have to quarantine and will be teaching remotely) and on the families. My heart goes out to them.

It would be useful to understand their protocols, or even if they have any. Recall the post about Shig Stars where there was a parent of a student who might have had close contact with someone who might have tested positive, so they closed the whole school.

Agreed. I think this is an area where it would be really useful to have more sharing of information (certainly a better use of our time than trying to discuss the lives of individual children who tested positive for Covid!). There's a ton of variation in protocols across the district and it would be great to have a better sense of what different schools are doing and what impact it might be having on both prevention of any Covid spread AND on finding ways to limit quarantines. They are necessary but disruptive and if there are ways to reduce them (like by cohosting MS and HS classes to some extent) I think it would benefit everyone. It's a bummer all these kids are having to stay home so soon after school starting.

where would the fun be in advocating for evidence based quarantine policies, when you can just tweet about every sick kid you see and every covid letter?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:John Hayden Johnson MS is having to quarantine its entire 6th grade class due to a positive case last week. Apparently all kids in the grade are considered close contacts: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/08/coronavirus-sixth-grade-class-quarantine-johnson-middle-school/

I'd be interested to know more about Covid protocols at the school because I'd like to know how all 129 6th graders got exposed (please note only 1 child tested positive -- so far no additional positives at the school so we don't know if there is any Covid spread at the school yet).

Did they eat lunch together? Or is it due to switching classes and teachers and being unable to cohort the class?

I hope no one else gets sick and that the original positive case recovers well. This must be hard on the teachers (who also have to quarantine and will be teaching remotely) and on the families. My heart goes out to them.

It would be useful to understand their protocols, or even if they have any. Recall the post about Shig Stars where there was a parent of a student who might have had close contact with someone who might have tested positive, so they closed the whole school.

Agreed. I think this is an area where it would be really useful to have more sharing of information (certainly a better use of our time than trying to discuss the lives of individual children who tested positive for Covid!). There's a ton of variation in protocols across the district and it would be great to have a better sense of what different schools are doing and what impact it might be having on both prevention of any Covid spread AND on finding ways to limit quarantines. They are necessary but disruptive and if there are ways to reduce them (like by cohosting MS and HS classes to some extent) I think it would benefit everyone. It's a bummer all these kids are having to stay home so soon after school starting.

Johnson MS is a DCPS school so it should employ the same exact protocols as every other DCPS. But it’s not here because the entire 6th grade is quarantined. Why?? Shining Stars is not comparable because it’s a charter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:John Hayden Johnson MS is having to quarantine its entire 6th grade class due to a positive case last week. Apparently all kids in the grade are considered close contacts: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/08/coronavirus-sixth-grade-class-quarantine-johnson-middle-school/

I'd be interested to know more about Covid protocols at the school because I'd like to know how all 129 6th graders got exposed (please note only 1 child tested positive -- so far no additional positives at the school so we don't know if there is any Covid spread at the school yet).

Did they eat lunch together? Or is it due to switching classes and teachers and being unable to cohort the class?

I hope no one else gets sick and that the original positive case recovers well. This must be hard on the teachers (who also have to quarantine and will be teaching remotely) and on the families. My heart goes out to them.

not sure why DCist assumes the positive is a student. Much more likely it’s a teacher or staff member in a position to be in contact with all the classes.

Good point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:John Hayden Johnson MS is having to quarantine its entire 6th grade class due to a positive case last week. Apparently all kids in the grade are considered close contacts: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/08/coronavirus-sixth-grade-class-quarantine-johnson-middle-school/

I'd be interested to know more about Covid protocols at the school because I'd like to know how all 129 6th graders got exposed (please note only 1 child tested positive -- so far no additional positives at the school so we don't know if there is any Covid spread at the school yet).

Did they eat lunch together? Or is it due to switching classes and teachers and being unable to cohort the class?

I hope no one else gets sick and that the original positive case recovers well. This must be hard on the teachers (who also have to quarantine and will be teaching remotely) and on the families. My heart goes out to them.

not sure why DCist assumes the positive is a student. Much more likely it’s a teacher or staff member in a position to be in contact with all the classes.

It was not a student. It was a special education support teacher who pushes into all of the classes to provide services to SN kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:John Hayden Johnson MS is having to quarantine its entire 6th grade class due to a positive case last week. Apparently all kids in the grade are considered close contacts: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/08/coronavirus-sixth-grade-class-quarantine-johnson-middle-school/

I'd be interested to know more about Covid protocols at the school because I'd like to know how all 129 6th graders got exposed (please note only 1 child tested positive -- so far no additional positives at the school so we don't know if there is any Covid spread at the school yet).

Did they eat lunch together? Or is it due to switching classes and teachers and being unable to cohort the class?

I hope no one else gets sick and that the original positive case recovers well. This must be hard on the teachers (who also have to quarantine and will be teaching remotely) and on the families. My heart goes out to them.

not sure why DCist assumes the positive is a student. Much more likely it’s a teacher or staff member in a position to be in contact with all the classes.

It was not a student. It was a special education support teacher who pushes into all of the classes to provide services to SN kids.

You get what you pay for with DCist, which has devolved into a truly shoddy journalism outlet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:John Hayden Johnson MS is having to quarantine its entire 6th grade class due to a positive case last week. Apparently all kids in the grade are considered close contacts: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/08/coronavirus-sixth-grade-class-quarantine-johnson-middle-school/

I'd be interested to know more about Covid protocols at the school because I'd like to know how all 129 6th graders got exposed (please note only 1 child tested positive -- so far no additional positives at the school so we don't know if there is any Covid spread at the school yet).

Did they eat lunch together? Or is it due to switching classes and teachers and being unable to cohort the class?

I hope no one else gets sick and that the original positive case recovers well. This must be hard on the teachers (who also have to quarantine and will be teaching remotely) and on the families. My heart goes out to them.

not sure why DCist assumes the positive is a student. Much more likely it’s a teacher or staff member in a position to be in contact with all the classes.

It was not a student. It was a special education support teacher who pushes into all of the classes to provide services to SN kids.

I wonder if that teacher was vaccinated…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:John Hayden Johnson MS is having to quarantine its entire 6th grade class due to a positive case last week. Apparently all kids in the grade are considered close contacts: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/08/coronavirus-sixth-grade-class-quarantine-johnson-middle-school/

I'd be interested to know more about Covid protocols at the school because I'd like to know how all 129 6th graders got exposed (please note only 1 child tested positive -- so far no additional positives at the school so we don't know if there is any Covid spread at the school yet).

Did they eat lunch together? Or is it due to switching classes and teachers and being unable to cohort the class?

I hope no one else gets sick and that the original positive case recovers well. This must be hard on the teachers (who also have to quarantine and will be teaching remotely) and on the families. My heart goes out to them.

not sure why DCist assumes the positive is a student. Much more likely it’s a teacher or staff member in a position to be in contact with all the classes.

It was not a student. It was a special education support teacher who pushes into all of the classes to provide services to SN kids.

Apologies!! Ahh, take that back- i got my schools mixed up. Johnson is apparently a teacher and each class meets with each teacher for their respective subjects everyday in Johnson’s sixth grade. So every student was in a classroom with the teacher each day. What I don’t know is why they used a whole classroom approach instead of those within 6ft approach. There is another school (elementary though) that apparently quarantined 2 or 3 whole classrooms because of a special Ed push in teacher who is positive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:John Hayden Johnson MS is having to quarantine its entire 6th grade class due to a positive case last week. Apparently all kids in the grade are considered close contacts: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/08/coronavirus-sixth-grade-class-quarantine-johnson-middle-school/

I'd be interested to know more about Covid protocols at the school because I'd like to know how all 129 6th graders got exposed (please note only 1 child tested positive -- so far no additional positives at the school so we don't know if there is any Covid spread at the school yet).

Did they eat lunch together? Or is it due to switching classes and teachers and being unable to cohort the class?

I hope no one else gets sick and that the original positive case recovers well. This must be hard on the teachers (who also have to quarantine and will be teaching remotely) and on the families. My heart goes out to them.

not sure why DCist assumes the positive is a student. Much more likely it’s a teacher or staff member in a position to be in contact with all the classes.

It was not a student. It was a special education support teacher who pushes into all of the classes to provide services to SN kids.

I wonder if that teacher was vaccinated…

There’s no justification for quarantining the entire grade! Unless they were like actively ill and coughing everywhere and refused to mask.

[Anonymous]

So, Bowser and the Chancellor spoke about quarantines at a conference this afternoon. They said that as of now, they are putting everyone identified as a close contact using the most expansive possible list into quarantine. They are then “investigating” each of those cases to determine whether they were in fact a close contact and/or vaccinated and no symptoms (in which case don’t need to quarantine). For those they find are vaccinated without symptoms or were not truly a close contact, they are releasing them from the quarantine. So the quarantine numbers being announced do not actually reflect the actual number of people in quarantine, which is much less