Anonymous wrote:Whatsa matter, OP? Didn't you ever go to MS or HS?

What's that supposed to mean. The APS guidelines say that anyone 3-6ft but masked isn't deemed a close contact. Aren't they setting up desks in clusters so that they are facing one another, ie. more than 3ft apart. So the only real close contact might be the person next to them at these desk clusters. That's something like 5 kids total if the school is using block scheduling.

Whatsa matter, OP? Didn't you ever go to MS or HS?

Thanks, that makes sense and I hadn't thought of that. The email sent yesterday said it was a 6th grader, so the vast majority of them aren't yet vaccinated.

They would have 3-5 close contacts per period for the child that got sick. So that’s around 18-40 kids depending. If your vaccinated you don’t need to quarantine if you’re a close contact though.

I can understand why an elementary classroom might be quarantined, but notice that it appears yesterday Swanson had a single case but they've identified something like 20 kids. Any insights or ideas on how at that level they found nearly two dozen kids meeting the APS definition of close contact? Based on the set up, it seems impossible unless this was lunch, but even then no way one child sat within 6ft of 20 kids unless he or she was floating among tables?

Maybe I'd been expecting MS and HS level quarantines to be a small handful at most, but this is a pretty large group of kids.