Insight into closing the school vs a classroom while waiting for COVID test results?
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Anonymous
| In the fall DC’s classroom was closed a couple of things while awaiting COVID test results. This time the school is closed. Anyone have insight it why the change might have occurred? |
Anonymous
| If you ask them for an explanation will they tell you? |
Anonymous
| Where is this? Probably depends who the school talked to at the county (or DC) health department. Not always consistent answers. |
Anonymous
| The DOH will instruct the center on what to do depending on who tested positive, and what kind of contact that person had with just one or more than one classroom "bubble", assuming the center had implemented a bubble model to start with. Even if the center implements such a model, the bubbles can't always be completely segregated, since you may have food servers or floaters, for example, that necessarily have contact with more than one bubble. |
Anonymous
| wait they closed the school because of a pending covid test? |
Anonymous
| Child care can no longer use outside temp agencies for subs. Likely closed because they didn’t have enough staff to operate within required ratios. If current staff are on quarantine, there is nobody to replace them. |
Anonymous
| They closed an entire school for a pending test? So like, someone had a sore throat so they closed the entire school? Something seems off. |
Anonymous
Perhaps the test they are waiting for is a floater or the director or another staff member who moves from room to room. Perhaps it's a kid with siblings, or a staff child and they would need to close multiple rooms. Perhaps they've stopped being so strict about cohorting in the school and multiple classes have been together on the playground. Perhaps staff have been socializing outside of school, and are listed as contacts and there isn't enough staff left to cover. |