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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopefully DCPS will do a better job than in March, when they basically left it up to parents to tell whomever they felt like telling.

Although I don't believe the flu comparison is correct, I don't see this going down much differently than a bad flu season at elementary schools.  The focus will be on instructing symptomatic kids to stay home until fever resolves (maybe 3-7 days after no fever).  The biggest disruption will be all the staff and teachers that get seriously ill/dies.  That's what I am dreading -- so many of the amazing teachers & staff at our school are vulnerable.  [/quote]

What are you talking about? How could have DCPS done it any differently? "they basically left it up to parents to tell whomever they felt like telling"? I don't get it.[/quote]

They should have informed everyone in the child's class, obviously.  It's concerning you're even asking this question.  Contact tracing means everyone who had sustained contact with the positive gets informed.  [/quote]

It's concerning that you think you are writing/communicating clearly. Still don't understand your point but....ok?[/quote]

Ok, let me explain again.  A child in my child's grade tested positive while school was still in session.  Apparently on the advice of the DC health department, DCPS did NOT inform all the children in the class. Those children were all close contacts of the positive case, and should have been informed, per contact tracing requirements.  Instead, the parent just decided to tell whomever she deemed she wanted to tell.  Unless/until DCPS and the Health Dept provide coherent information on how they are going to address this situation in the future, I have very little confidence in reopening.  [/quote]

This happened in my classroom with a different communicable disease (think previously/typically vaccine eliminated.....) and the school nurse etc. was adamant that they don’t have to inform anyone unless it’s “3 or more students from the same classroom”..... the policies around excluding kids from the classroom (such as requiring a doctor’s note to return), when a kid needs to be picked up, and definitely when other families need to be informed are so vague and I really hope this is clarified before we return. [/quote]

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