Any email from the school yet?

Anonymous wrote:Log in to the site through the parents portal and then scroll down past Divisional Resources to just below A Guide for New Families and click on Fall 2020 and scroll down to the dashboard right above the Medical Advisory Team. Whew!

Finding info is like a scavenger hunt.

Somebody beat me to it!

Log in to the site through the parents portal and then scroll down past Divisional Resources to just below A Guide for New Families and click on Fall 2020 and scroll down to the dashboard right above the Medical Advisory Team. Whew!

Anonymous wrote:I see comments above referring to a SFS Dashboard with COVID cases....

Can anyone give me tips on where I can find that in the Parent Portal section of the website? I just spent 10 minutes and I can't even find an easy link to anything COVID related (which is kind of crazy...but...). Whenever I want to do something COVID-related, I always have to go back to specific email communication from Mamadou or Jasmine and use their direct links.

Login, then once in the Parent Portal, click the green button on the right called "Fall 2020 FAQs, Videos and More." After that click the first icon ("Testing Dashboard and Information") (to the left of the "Medical Advisory Team").

I see comments above referring to a SFS Dashboard with COVID cases....

Can anyone give me tips on where I can find that in the Parent Portal section of the website? I just spent 10 minutes and I can't even find an easy link to anything COVID related (which is kind of crazy...but...). Whenever I want to do something COVID-related, I always have to go back to specific email communication from Mamadou or Jasmine and use their direct links.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school sends a school-wide email if someone found to be positive had been on campus and m/ or potentially exposed others in the school community. But posts in dashboard if it was only a contact of a student/ staff and the student m/ staff in question tested negative but is quarantining for 14 days, for example.

I think strikes a good balance.

Sidwell is not even reporting the latter (contact but but quarantine), and only reporting the actual positives. Unclear how widely they are reporting the positives. They certainly did not send any schoolwide message. I get half a dozen emails a day from the school on various topics, but apparently mentioning that a student tested positive isn’t as important to mention as such pressing topics as middle school sporting events or parents association meetings.

Wow! What division are you in? I don't think I've ever gotten a dozen emails in a week from SFS US (even in COVID or when we were new to school) - let alone in a day!

NP here....wondering what division you're in because I too get several emails from Sidwell. I don't get half a dozen everyday, but I get at least 3. I've gotten 4 so far today, but its only 5pm, so....

I'm the PP you are replying to and (as, I noted above) our child is in US.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Person A:
Literally every thread like this citing a so called reliable source is just stirring up gossip to trash dc privates. Ignore the trolls.

Person B:
WTF? Why so hostile? The school's dashboard shows a positive student case yesterday. Amazing to me how knowing zero about a topic does not prevent some like you from arguing.

Quick survey on the above:
Was person A “hostile”?
Or
Was Person B “hostile”?

Here’s a clue: It was not both.
Here’s another clue in life: someone saying their opinion is not “arguing.” Someone cursing, name calling, and more accusing is.

Incredibly clever. I wish I could write like that.

Kudos to St Andrew’s which also had a positive test this week. Letter from Admin to the community.

“Dear St. Andrew’s Families,

Last night, we were informed that a student in the X Cohort of the Upper School has tested positive for COVID-19 off-campus. Working with the health department, we determined that the student had close contact with two students off campus, and both of those students have been notified and are currently in quarantine. In adherence with our established safety protocols, the campus had already been deep cleaned over the weekend. Our weekly testing which took place yesterday has, to date, returned no positive cases. We will provide more detailed numbers of this week's testing in our weekly update in Friday’s newsletter.

We will maintain confidentiality of the affected individual and ask that you be considerate of the privacy of all members in our community. Please remember, it is mandatory for all St. Andrew’s community members to notify one of the school nurses if an employee, student, or immediate family member has pending COVID-19 testing, a positive COVID-19 test result, or if a student/employee feels unwell. If anyone in a student’s household has COVID-19-like symptoms or a pending COVID-19 test due to an onset of symptoms, all students are required to attend school virtually until the test result comes back.

Please contact one of us if you have any questions.”

All schools including SFS should err on the side of more transparency when it comes to communicating to the school community. If not to the whole school community, Admin should write at least to the division although many families have kids in more than one division. And the community should know if the positive case was from M-T grades 9-10 or from Th-F grades 11-12. And if staff members were positive, were they food service contractors? Others? Was contact tracing done in all cases? The community deserves to have enough information so each family can make the right decision that they are comfortable with.

I am grateful that the family of the student who tested positive stepped forward and shared the information. Some may not have disclosed it. And for every symptomatic child who go tested between the monthly school tests, there may be others who are asymptomatic and don’t know they are positive. In this context, and with positivity numbers surging in our region, testing once a month seems woefully inadequate now. Seems like the school is operating out of a playbook that is at least a couple of months old and needs to be adaptive to the changing conditions. That doesn’t mean closing hybrid, it means being proactive and communicative and testing more frequently.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school sends a school-wide email if someone found to be positive had been on campus and m/ or potentially exposed others in the school community. But posts in dashboard if it was only a contact of a student/ staff and the student m/ staff in question tested negative but is quarantining for 14 days, for example.

I think strikes a good balance.

Sidwell is not even reporting the latter (contact but but quarantine), and only reporting the actual positives. Unclear how widely they are reporting the positives. They certainly did not send any schoolwide message. I get half a dozen emails a day from the school on various topics, but apparently mentioning that a student tested positive isn’t as important to mention as such pressing topics as middle school sporting events or parents association meetings.

Wow! What division are you in? I don't think I've ever gotten a dozen emails in a week from SFS US (even in COVID or when we were new to school) - let alone in a day!

NP here....wondering what division you're in because I too get several emails from Sidwell. I don't get half a dozen everyday, but I get at least 3. I've gotten 4 so far today, but its only 5pm, so....

I’m in US and like the PP, I rarely get emails.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school sends a school-wide email if someone found to be positive had been on campus and m/ or potentially exposed others in the school community. But posts in dashboard if it was only a contact of a student/ staff and the student m/ staff in question tested negative but is quarantining for 14 days, for example.

I think strikes a good balance.

Sidwell is not even reporting the latter (contact but but quarantine), and only reporting the actual positives. Unclear how widely they are reporting the positives. They certainly did not send any schoolwide message. I get half a dozen emails a day from the school on various topics, but apparently mentioning that a student tested positive isn’t as important to mention as such pressing topics as middle school sporting events or parents association meetings.

Wow! What division are you in? I don't think I've ever gotten a dozen emails in a week from SFS US (even in COVID or when we were new to school) - let alone in a day!

NP here....wondering what division you're in because I too get several emails from Sidwell. I don't get half a dozen everyday, but I get at least 3. I've gotten 4 so far today, but its only 5pm, so....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Person A:
Literally every thread like this citing a so called reliable source is just stirring up gossip to trash dc privates. Ignore the trolls.

Person B:
WTF? Why so hostile? The school's dashboard shows a positive student case yesterday. Amazing to me how knowing zero about a topic does not prevent some like you from arguing.

Quick survey on the above:
Was person A “hostile”?
Or
Was Person B “hostile”?

Here’s a clue: It was not both.
Here’s another clue in life: someone saying their opinion is not “arguing.” Someone cursing, name calling, and more accusing is.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school sends a school-wide email if someone found to be positive had been on campus and m/ or potentially exposed others in the school community. But posts in dashboard if it was only a contact of a student/ staff and the student m/ staff in question tested negative but is quarantining for 14 days, for example.

I think strikes a good balance.

Sidwell is not even reporting the latter (contact but but quarantine), and only reporting the actual positives. Unclear how widely they are reporting the positives. They certainly did not send any schoolwide message. I get half a dozen emails a day from the school on various topics, but apparently mentioning that a student tested positive isn’t as important to mention as such pressing topics as middle school sporting events or parents association meetings.

Wow! What division are you in? I don't think I've ever gotten a dozen emails in a week from SFS US (even in COVID or when we were new to school) - let alone in a day!

Anonymous wrote:

Why should they send a school-wide message for every single positive? If you're in LS, on a separate campus, is it relevant to know that someone in the US tested positive with the immediacy of an email? They're not hiding the data, but I'm happy not to get another email saying "positive test" when it's not relevant because of lack of contact.

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