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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the press conference, they are looking at reported positives from the last 4 days among total school population.
Green &lt;3%
Yellow 3-5%
Red &gt;5%

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(And of course they can't post that before the press conference - people would flip out with no explanation to go with it. They'll still flip out, but at least there is context now.)[/quote]

Just how are they doing this? For instance my Title One school has many nonEnglish speaking parents. Are they getting all the info in how to report, testing, etc? We had many +s prior to break. Why so many upcountry schools? [/quote]

Probably because they're smaller and possibly because they're smaller they were able to test everyone.

Ita re non-English speakers. How are they disseminating this information to them? [/quote]
MCPS routinely manages to communicate with non-English speakers.[/quote]

NP.

Not well.

It's a matter of both translation and cultural literacy.

I'm actually wondering if this isn't why our school had[i] impossibly[/i] low numbers as of 1/1. Just way out of whack with all surrounding schools. Less than 1%.

About 1/3 of our school comes from an immigrant group that primarily speaks a non-European language. Getting really basic translation services has always been way harder than it should be. Let alone communicating this kind of complicated message which asks for sensitive personal info and so on.

Most of the parents speak some to fluent English, but no doubt it's still a significant barrier. [/quote]

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