My kid got Covid and if the principal had notified the class it would have saved me a bunch of awkward fishing emails from parents I don’t really know asking about where my kid was. I don’t really think it’s a big ask. The worried people might get a test. The rest of the class will be extra alert for symptoms. In our case, it didn’t spread (to out knowledge), even in a 25+ person class eating indoors.

Anonymous wrote:I asked my kid to tell me if a group of kids are ever absent from her class. Then we'll know there was a COVID case. Problem solved.

This. Our school has been notifying classes all along but I have to laugh when people say “omg, we will never know unless we get emails.” Umm, kids are the nosiest, best reporters in the world. Every day, I get a report of exactly who was absent in each of my kids’ classrooms. When one of my kid’s had a positive in the class, I knew an hour before I got the call about it because the moment I picked my kid up, I got told that a group of “friends” got picked up early from school today. These were the close contacts. That was a Tuesday. I asked my kid, who did you say was absent yesterday? My kid told me “X” was absent yesterday and today. I assumed then and there it was X. When all the kids returned to class the following Monday, my kid excitedly told me how X told everyone she had Covid. It’s not at all a secret or some puzzle to decipher. And for those panicky folks, here is a fun tidbit - no one else in the class got Covid, not even my child who actually happens to be best friends with X and plays with X everyday, including the day X apparently took the Covid test (still no clue why my child wasn’t identified as a close contact but the experience just underscored how unnecessary these quarantines are)

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Anonymous wrote:Janney has been notifying parents with a separate message if a case was in their kid’s class. Not sure what that is supposed to change for anyone, besides being even more relieved not to have been identified as a close contact. I guess it allows the Covid anxious to test their child. So far though, even the close contacts haven’t become infected, not even when the positive kid was symptomatic in class, so I’m not particularly worried. Delta hasn’t exactly been ripping through classrooms like the doomsayers wanted.

This must be a change since I was not notified of COVID cases in my child’s class, but rather heard it through the grapevine (which is not good).

Either you missed the notification or there wasn’t a Covid case in your kids class. Perhaps it was a sibling of a kid in your kid’s class that caused the sibling to quarantine. But I can guarantee due to personal knowledge that every classroom got notified of every positive at Janney.

I asked my kid to tell me if a group of kids are ever absent from her class. Then we'll know there was a COVID case. Problem solved.

Why would I want this? It's not going to change my willingness to send my child to school

Anonymous wrote:Janney has been notifying parents with a separate message if a case was in their kid’s class. Not sure what that is supposed to change for anyone, besides being even more relieved not to have been identified as a close contact. I guess it allows the Covid anxious to test their child. So far though, even the close contacts haven’t become infected, not even when the positive kid was symptomatic in class, so I’m not particularly worried. Delta hasn’t exactly been ripping through classrooms like the doomsayers wanted.

This must be a change since I was not notified of COVID cases in my child’s class, but rather heard it through the grapevine (which is not good).

Have you been evaluated for an anxiety disorder?

I get that covid is nerve-wracking but you’re engaged in what’s called “safety behaviors.” Expanded notification is not going to keep your kid magically protected from covid. Sit tight and wait for the vaccine. Maybe get a hands-on volunteer job to absorb your nervous energy.

Why does Mendelson oppose?

Hardy did no send any information about a teacher who was in quarantine due to COVID-19 and student being tested.Inthinks parents have the right to know what is going on in our kids school🤔

Anonymous wrote:If your child is wearing his/her mask the entire time, this honestly is a non-issue.

Yeah, I'm good with only knowing if there was actual exposure through being near due to eating/ unmasked etc. If some kid sneezed ten feet away from my kid while wearing a mask and later tested positive for covid I would not change my behavior in any way

Janney has been notifying parents with a separate message if a case was in their kid’s class. Not sure what that is supposed to change for anyone, besides being even more relieved not to have been identified as a close contact. I guess it allows the Covid anxious to test their child. So far though, even the close contacts haven’t become infected, not even when the positive kid was symptomatic in class, so I’m not particularly worried. Delta hasn’t exactly been ripping through classrooms like the doomsayers wanted.

We are notified if there is a positive case in our class at our DCPS school. THey said they just got permission from DCPS in mid to late September I think. I know because principal and teachers felt really bad for not notifying us right away, but they did a few days later when they got permission.

And if you'd like to stop all the COVID notifications from schools also email the Council!

If your child is wearing his/her mask the entire time, this honestly is a non-issue.

All DCPS's policy is to NOT notify parents even if a kid 3 feet from yours in the classroom tests positive. This is in writing in the Reopen Strong Guidelines. A Councilmember has proposed an amendment so that parents are notified when someone in the class is positive. Please email your Councilmembers immediattely if you support. Voting begins at 12 but this is late on the agenda to send it even if you don't see this by 12! Mendelson is the big opposer. https://dccouncil.us/councilmembers/