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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently the new “guidance” confirms what we’ve been hearing. If a child has “symptoms” associated with COVID (could be a runny nose) their close contacts (this has been interpreted as the entire class in many schools) are quarantined for ten days.

This is completely ludicrous and not based in science or CDC guidelines.[/quote]

It’s not “symptoms,” it’s symptom! One symptom!

“ This is particularly important as if your child has any of the following single symptoms they will be sent home and not be able to return to school until they have a negative test, alternate diagnosis, or complete a full 10-day quarantine. During that period of time, all other students who have been in their close contact will have to be in a temporary quarantine while the other families wait on the outcome of that testing for your child.  This  could be potentially disruptive to your children and families moving in and out of quarantine and to avoid it takes all of us working together.  It is a collective responsibility that we exercise extreme caution and be conservative in our approach.

The single symptoms that the health room staff screen for and will result in quarantine are cough, difficulty breathing, new loss of taste or smell, fever ≥100.4°, sore throat, severe Headache, diarrhea or vomiting.  Please do not send your children to school with any of these symptoms.  This is essential for us to continue to remain in school without quarantine.”
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What choice do they have, though? I'm in favor of in-person and my kids went back in spring. But what else can they do?

It also doesn't say runny nose, at least, because then no one would be in school from Nov.-March.[/quote]

What else can they do? They can not quarantine entire classrooms of masked kids based on one sniffle. They could follow the CDC guidelines for a start![/quote]

This.  NONE of the BOE board members are remotely qualified to be making these decisions.  Just follow the CDC.  Is this a departing gift from Gayles?  Or has someone else taken up his mantle?  The county health department has been so anti-kid this entire time.  [/quote]

But you are qualified to know whether your kid has COVID without a test? I hope Gayles’s replacement is even more conservative. It’s needed for this self-centered  population. [/quote]

No I'm not qualified, so I trust in an institution that actually is.  I never said not to test, this goes beyond testing and you know it.  If anything this is going to have such a chilling effect because no one is going to want to get their kid's class shut down unnecessarily.  [/quote]

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