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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If a student tests positive, does the whole class quarantine and have to get tested?[/quote]

They say only close contacts, but in ES I have not heard of anything but whole classrooms or grades quarantining. They should be honest about what the policy is. [/quote]

I'm confused. We got a notification that a student got covid and the email says staff and students don't need to quarantine since they were not in close contact. They sit 6 to a row, take masks off at recess, how can they not be in close contact?[/quote]

You are the first person I've heard say that the entire ES class was not quarantined. That's amazing. What school?[/quote]

My kid is not in that class that is why I asked if whole school would be notified if a class gets quarantined. Ours does not show up yet on the website but we got the notification this evening that a student in grade X got it. Maybe tomorrow we will get updates about the quarantining. Todays notice says no quarantining. A child from that grade (not sure if same section where the infected kid was) sits next to my kid on the bus. I should probably just drop my kid at school.

Not naming the school, but it will show up on the website tomorrow I suppose.[/quote]

If you got the notice tonight, then it will likely be posted tomorrow. 
At our school, they sent a note to the community that there was a positive case. It said that you didn't need to quarantine unless you got another letter saying that. I got the quarantine letter, and it said that all students in the teacher's classes (homeroom and math) were required to quarantine for 10 days. Therefore, if you weren't in the teacher's class, then you only got the first letter--notifying you of a case--but did not have the quarantine information.[/quote]

Also, it sounds like they may still have quarantined the whole class, as your kid is not in that class so you wouldn't be aware of who they quarantined. (I knew about the quarantine in our school because the letter said Dear Parents/Guardians in X's homeroom and math class" so I knew they quarantined all students.)[/quote]

Thank you. That makes sense, not alarming everyone. I guess we will know through word of mouth which section is quarantined.  How was the switch from in person to online? Was it fine for your child?[/quote]

We have only had a day online, but it was fine. My kid very much prefers to be in-person, but when the whole class is quarantined, the primary teacher does the instruction online. I feel bad for the teacher because she has a lot of kids — all of her homeroom and all the kids in her math class, most of whom are not in her homeroom — and none of the kids has any materials. But the teacher and kids are adapting, and while far from perfect, it is going okay. [/quote]

Good to hear that the kids are adapting and it is going fine. My kid did really well with the hybrid model (DC stayed home) and I was hoping we would have that option for this school year. But it is what it is, and good to know that switching between the two models is working. Agreed it is more work for the teacher.

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