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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Excellent first question from new SMOB. (What happens if a student tests positive?)

MCPS and Health department will coordinate. They will do full contact tracing in the building and will identify close contacts to quarantine and spaces that need cleaning. Might be just a classroom, might be the whole school.[/quote]

My guess is that few people here have been through contact tracing. I have. It is very comprehensive. If I am in the copier room trying to make materials for all of my preps, I will be in there for more than 15 min. Anyone else trying to work in that room, to use the laminator or other equipment would have had sufficient exposure to be told to quarantine for 14 days. As a precaution, we would need to limit work room occupancy to one person at a time. However, our workroom also has all of things a teacher needs to create instructional materials, including printers.

Moreover, all of our teachers except art room share. This means that teachers spend their planning periods camped out in other spaces around the school. I prefer to work in my department office, but two other people are in there at the same time. If I went to the media center or lounge, I would be around even more people for more than 15 min. How can I social distance for my protection and that of others when there’s no available space in the school? Would you recommend that I sit outside of the building and try to plan or create materials sitting on the black top? For 85 min? In all weather?[/quote]

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