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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not personally familiar with SSMA and it sounds like there are some organizational issues, which might be the culprit.

But it really seems like there is more to the story. Someone, somewhere along the chain, had an overreaction to the reported exposure (which is attenuated) and that led to the closure. Whether it was the parent reporting the exposure, or another parent in that class freaking out, or the teacher freaking out, or an administrator freaking out, someone had a knee jerk reaction, did not follow the preset protocol, and threw the lives of every single family at the school into tumult.

That shouldn't happen. I know it's scary, but that's why you figure out these procedures ahead of time and make them crystal clear to all involved, so that when something goes wrong (as it inevitably will) you can simply follow the plan and not just give in to one or more people having a panic attack. I'm sympathetic to people who are having BIG feelings about all this (I'm sending my unvaccinated kid to school too, I get it -- I am not rational every day), but we need to try to keep feelings out of it as much as possible.

If I were an SSMA parent, I'd want a full accounting of what led to the closure. I don't even think the "who" is as important as the "why". The "why" is how you figure out how to keep it from happening again.[/quote]

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