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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Knowing that schools are quarantining broadly - at least when they first identify a positive - I am not at all concerned about the "numbers in quarantine" from news articles or otherwise. And I think it's disingenuous to report on it because schools and school systems are using WILDLY different thresholds to identify a need to quarantine.

The schools are in an impossible position, with some families clamoring for the narrowest possible definition of close contact so that all kids can stay in person as much as possible and there are no/few quarantines.

And then middle ground families are ok with broad-ish quarantines because, at some cost to in-person school, they may help stop spread and school-based outbreaks.

[b]And then the most risk averse families hanging on every positive case as if it spells doom for their children, and wanting to limit school attendance in general so that not 1 person gets COVID.[/b]

It's impossible. [/quote]

exactly. I’m really reallt tired of the sh*t reporting on schools and covid in this region, which seems to be limited to elevating the voices of people with anxiety disorders and reporting data completely out of context. [/quote]

Yes and unfortunately these seem to be some of the louder voices on twitter.  Lots of reporting on one case and then saying things like "NONE OF THIS IS OK."  My IB Ward 4 school has completely full classes of in person students, including PK, which is not mandatory.  Parents wear masks at drop-off and obviously people worry about thier kids but they are sending them without these histrionics that you see from the loudest complainers.  [/quote]

And FWIW, those kids are getting COVID.  [/quote]

FWIW, there have been several Covid cases at our school over the past two weeks (all acquired outside of school), and none of the quarantined close contacts at school have tested positive. Looks like even delta isn’t just going to rip through masked classrooms.[/quote]

Exactly. I'd like to see DC news outlets reports on this instead of just inane tweets about "800 KIDS IN QUARANTINE OMFG!!!"  Are they even showing up to the  Mayor's press conferences?  Why not, you know ... ask?  A PP posted some really valuable info explaining why the Johnson quarantine was so big -- would be great if reporters included that, you know, INFORMATION, in their NEWS articles.  But that would require actually doing reporting as opposed to republishing tweets and out-of-context data reports. [/quote]

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