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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]John Hayden Johnson MS is having to quarantine its entire 6th grade class due to a positive case last week. Apparently all kids in the grade are considered close contacts: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/08/coronavirus-sixth-grade-class-quarantine-johnson-middle-school/

I'd be interested to know more about Covid protocols at the school because I'd like to know how all 129 6th graders got exposed (please note only 1 child tested positive -- so far no additional positives at the school so we don't know if there is any Covid spread at the school yet).

Did they eat lunch together? Or is it due to switching classes and teachers and being unable to cohort the class?

I hope no one else gets sick and that the original positive case recovers well. This must be hard on the teachers (who also have to quarantine and will be teaching remotely) and on the families. My heart goes out to them.[/quote]

It would be useful to understand their protocols, or even if they have any.  Recall the post about Shig Stars where there was a parent of a student who might have had close contact with someone who might have tested positive, so they closed the whole school.  [/quote]

Agreed. I think this is an area where it would be really useful to have more sharing of information (certainly a better use of our time than trying to discuss the lives of individual children who tested positive for Covid!). There's a ton of variation in protocols across the district and it would be great to have a better sense of what different schools are doing and what impact it might be having on both prevention of any Covid spread AND on finding ways to limit quarantines.  They are necessary but disruptive and if there are ways to reduce them (like by cohosting MS and HS classes to some extent) I think it would benefit everyone. It's a bummer all these kids are having to stay home so soon after school starting.[/quote]

where would the fun be in advocating for evidence based quarantine policies, when you can just tweet about every sick kid you see and every covid letter?[/quote]

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