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Anonymous wrote: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.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

Many schools do not have this.

DCPS central appears to intentionally try to make it hard for parents to communicate with each other.

Didn’t someone send an article around a few months ago about how the Chancellor attended some Broad training that includes advice on how to make parents feel like you’re asking for their advice while trying to prevent parents from organizing and talking to teacher groups?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

Many schools do not have this.

DCPS central appears to intentionally try to make it hard for parents to communicate with each other.

Didn’t someone send an article around a few months ago about how the Chancellor attended some Broad training that includes advice on how to make parents feel like you’re asking for their advice while trying to prevent parents from organizing and talking to teacher groups?

Anonymous wrote:Our charter notifies and the full class quarantines for 7-10 days. No mask or close contact exceptions. I'm okay with this but those who appreciate the more liberal DCPS policy may want to consider before calling for changes.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

Are there really DCPS schools that don’t have weekly classroom emails where everyone is either listed or a listserv for everyone is created? We have that plus an online directory- I can see who is in every single class in the entire school and their parents’ names, emails, and in most cases, addresses.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Because I don’t have their contact info. Not sure I would have if I did though. Still a lot of judgment around a Covid diagnosis and my kid didn’t want to advertise that it was her.

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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)

That's true, but you can't trust Kindergarteners as much although my son does tell me a lot.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Why didn't you email the class? Just wondering - I was thinking I probably would if my kid does get Covid.

Anonymous wrote:

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)

Anonymous wrote: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.