APS: What will happen if there is a COVID outbreak in a school?

[Anonymous]

School is getting ready to reopen. What is the procedure if there is a COVID outbreak of students in a school? Will that school shut down, or will it depend on how many people contract it from the outbreak? If it does shut down, for how long will it close?

[Anonymous]

Per the APS website, if there is a case of covid in a class, that whole class will move to virtual learning for 14 days. If there are multiple cases in a school, the response will depend on whether the cases appear to be linked. If so, the whole school may move back to virtual learning for some period of time.

[Anonymous]

Per the APS website, if there is a case of covid in a class, that whole class will move to virtual learning for 14 days. If there are multiple cases in a school, the response will depend on whether the cases appear to be linked. If so, the whole school may move back to virtual learning for some period of time.

What if it's in an MS or HS, where multiple students use the same classroom? Will all of those students have to move to virtual?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Per the APS website, if there is a case of covid in a class, that whole class will move to virtual learning for 14 days. If there are multiple cases in a school, the response will depend on whether the cases appear to be linked. If so, the whole school may move back to virtual learning for some period of time.

What if it's in an MS or HS, where multiple students use the same classroom? Will all of those students have to move to virtual?

My understanding is that it will be just the students who were in class with the affected child. If there are indications that it spread to students in multiple classes due to a case in a single classroom, that would probably cause the whole school to shut down.

[Anonymous]

Why are you just asking this now? SMH. It's been up on the website for months.

[Anonymous]

https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2020-21/health-safety/student-illness-covid/

Everything you need to know is here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous




https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2020-21/health-safety/student-illness-covid/

Everything you need to know is here.

No, it isn't. This information is skewed toward ES. MS and HS students report to multiple classrooms all day. This document doesn't explain what will happen if there is an outbreak in an MS or HS classroom in which as many as 30-50 students could have cycled in and out of all day before a case was realized.

[Anonymous]

Why are you just asking this now? SMH. It's been up on the website for months.

Where? Where is this specific question about MS and HS answered?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous




https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2020-21/health-safety/student-illness-covid/

Everything you need to know is here.

No, it isn't. This information is skewed toward ES. MS and HS students report to multiple classrooms all day. This document doesn't explain what will happen if there is an outbreak in an MS or HS classroom in which as many as 30-50 students could have cycled in and out of all day before a case was realized.

Per our MS principal, no, they will not put every student who has been in a particular classroom back into distance learning because another student was in that classroom at a different time and then got covid. If there is a case in our school, only students who were in the same classes as that student will move to virtual learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous




https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2020-21/health-safety/student-illness-covid/

Everything you need to know is here.



No, it isn't. This information is skewed toward ES. MS and HS students report to multiple classrooms all day. This document doesn't explain what will happen if there is an outbreak in an MS or HS classroom in which as many as 30-50 students could have cycled in and out of all day before a case was realized.



Per our MS principal, no, they will not put every student who has been in a particular classroom back into distance learning because another student was in that classroom at a different time and then got covid. If there is a case in our school, only students who were in the same classes as that student will move to virtual learning.

And the teacher from that class will have to move to distance learning also?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous




https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2020-21/health-safety/student-illness-covid/

Everything you need to know is here.



No, it isn't. This information is skewed toward ES. MS and HS students report to multiple classrooms all day. This document doesn't explain what will happen if there is an outbreak in an MS or HS classroom in which as many as 30-50 students could have cycled in and out of all day before a case was realized.



Per our MS principal, no, they will not put every student who has been in a particular classroom back into distance learning because another student was in that classroom at a different time and then got covid. If there is a case in our school, only students who were in the same classes as that student will move to virtual learning.

And the teacher from that class will have to move to distance learning also?

I would recommend reaching out to your school’s administration for more information on this. I don’t recall that it was specifically addressed for ours, and I’m not comfortable speculating in case I’m wrong.

[Anonymous]

It would be a real shame if all the kids across all the sections, including DL kids, would suddenly get a know-nothing sub because a teacher had to be quarantined.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be a real shame if all the kids across all the sections, including DL kids, would suddenly get a know-nothing sub because a teacher had to be quarantined.

A teacher who is in quarantine due to potential exposure but who is not ill can still teach virtually. They would need an aide in the classroom for supervision, but not for instruction. This was one of the primary benefits of the concurrent model.

[Anonymous]

Honest question--why would you quarantine if you're vaccinated? I know not all teachers are yet, but if they were?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honest question--why would you quarantine if you're vaccinated? I know not all teachers are yet, but if they were?

Vaccines are not 100% effective. While the risk is very slim, if the teacher did not get full immunity they could still contract and transmit covid. Until we’ve gotten to the point of herd immunity, the safest course is to maintain our current level of precautions.