Reply to Anyone know what happened at TJMS with Covid?

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "Anyone know what happened at TJMS with Covid?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "close contacts" that you can see on the APS website are NOT close contacts as defined by the health department, the CDC, or anyone else apart from the parents completing the Qualtrics screener.  So, not "close contacts" based on in-school transmission but rather "I am reporting that my kid was in contact with someone who has covid."

These could be a bunch of kids who were together outside of school.  These could be several families who have nothing to do with one another and all happened to have a family member test positive for covid at around the same time.  This is not a reported outbreak at the school which is what some PPs seem to be implying.  If your kid walks by another kid with covid in a hallway at APS with both of them wearing masks, you are not going to be notified of a "close contact" because this does not meet the definition.  [/quote]

You are partially correct, but the close contacts are also[/b] defined by the SCHOOL. [b]The parents do not know who the kids have been sitting next to in school for hours. The W&L contacts is over 50 and it's only W&L students, not friends/familly.[/quote]

Nope  this is the self reported BS screener. Nothing is reported by the school. This is why we don’t fill it out. Complete and utter BS. 
[/quote]

Maybe you’re not understanding, the school contacts all students that have been exposed to the positive case. Those students are then required to fill out the Screener saying they are a close contact.[/quote]

I don't think this is true.  It is one of the pieces that people were freaking out about, but APS does not need to tell you whether some other kid in the building had covid and this is the very reason for all of the mitigation measures.  [b]If your kid sits in math class 6' away from another kid with a mask on, this is not a "close contact" and if the other kid reports a positive case, the school is not calling you to say that you have to answer the screener as a "close contact" every day[/b].  I have no idea if APS is even notifying families if there's a positive case in a classroom in which all mitigation measures are being taken.  A dozen of those W&L "close contacts" are in full DL so your explanation doesn't make sense.[/quote]

APS has said all along that if you are in class together you will be called. Given an actual family who has been through this process has indicated they were called when their kid was in class with a positive case at TJMS, you were obviously talking out of your ass. Posting untrue or assumed info is not helpful.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics