Anonymous
Post 12/16/2020 22:17     Subject: Re:Teacher tested positive!
Anonymous wrote:As with so many COVID-related issues these days, people on both sides of this debate are being willfully ignorant of the weaknesses in their argument. Some posters here arguing that daycare and school are safe refuse to acknowledge that in a room full of kids with a positive teacher, it’s entirely possible one of more of the kids had the virus but was asymptomatic. And other posters who think daycare and school are unsafe are refusing to acknowledge that if all or most of those kids got the virus, it’s likely at least one kid’s parent or other family member would have gotten it and developed symptoms.

Bottom line: this is a complicated issue. It’s not black and white.


+1

It's not right to assume they teacher got it from the kids, and it's not right to assume the teacher couldn't have gotten it from the kids.

If none of the parents were sick, it's more likely the teacher didn't get it from the kids, though.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2020 22:10     Subject: Teacher tested positive!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My 4 year old's teacher tested positive a month ago. Not ONE kid (out of 15) or the other teacher got sick. They were all together for 6 hours and the kids aren't great at wearing masks because they're 4. This is a testament to masks and/or safety practices at our daycare.


Are you SURE that no one else got sick?

Because your child's class sounds a lot like mine (same age, same number of children) where the first teacher passed it on to her co-teacher. At least one child got sick (asymptomatic) and passed it on to her parents, the mom got VERY sick. You wouldn't know that, though, because the family kept it private (rightly so, it's their private medical information) and the school has no obligation to tell you since the class was already closed down during this time.


OP here, no one in our immediate class got sick from the teacher. I asked the school and they said they wold let us know. We also had a group chat with the parents and all shared our negative results.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2020 20:29     Subject: Teacher tested positive!
Anonymous wrote:My 4 year old's teacher tested positive a month ago. Not ONE kid (out of 15) or the other teacher got sick. They were all together for 6 hours and the kids aren't great at wearing masks because they're 4. This is a testament to masks and/or safety practices at our daycare.


Are you SURE that no one else got sick?

Because your child's class sounds a lot like mine (same age, same number of children) where the first teacher passed it on to her co-teacher. At least one child got sick (asymptomatic) and passed it on to her parents, the mom got VERY sick. You wouldn't know that, though, because the family kept it private (rightly so, it's their private medical information) and the school has no obligation to tell you since the class was already closed down during this time.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2020 11:13     Subject: Teacher tested positive!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The class still would’ve had to quarantine since the CDC defined to close contact as somebody who has been together for 15 minutes regardless of masks. So I really hope that the whole room quarantined.


Yes we all quarantined and the school was actually shut down for two weeks - op


Which is exactly what they are doing in countries where they have schools back to face to face. Kids are often in bubbles or pods and classes shut down and quarantine on a case by case basis.

Our almost 3 year old had a teacher test positive recently - he and I were both tested and we were both negative. They wear masks unless eating and sleeping.

Is it foolproof? Of course not. Could I do my job and keep my sanity without daycare? Probably not. This is the risk our family is choosing as opposed to extracurricular activities or going out to eat at a restaurant or traveling during this time.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2020 21:59     Subject: Teacher tested positive!
Anonymous wrote:My 4 year old's teacher tested positive a month ago. Not ONE kid (out of 15) or the other teacher got sick. They were all together for 6 hours and the kids aren't great at wearing masks because they're 4. This is a testament to masks and/or safety practices at our daycare.


Similar. 4 year old tested positive but no one else in the daycare classroom caught it, though they are open 11 hours a day. I'm so thankful the teachers enforce masks on the kids so well.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2020 14:22     Subject: Teacher tested positive!
"OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive."

It's a real possibility the teacher picked it up elsewhere and didn't give the virus to anyone else in the class. Did the school test everyone in the co-hort?
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2020 10:33     Subject: Teacher tested positive!
Anonymous wrote:The class still would’ve had to quarantine since the CDC defined to close contact as somebody who has been together for 15 minutes regardless of masks. So I really hope that the whole room quarantined.


Yes we all quarantined and the school was actually shut down for two weeks - op
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2020 10:32     Subject: Re:Teacher tested positive!
Anonymous wrote:Unless all the kids were tested, you have no idea whether or not they had it. My sister and her DH tested positive. None of their kids showed any symptoms at all. All three tested positive.


OP here. They were all tested. It was a requirement from the school. I am friends with a lot of the moms and the school said they would let us know if anyone was positive.

And to the PP banging her head on the keyboard....it was a substitute teacher and she was with them for one day. She did not get it from a student.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2020 22:46     Subject: Re:Teacher tested positive!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Unless all the kids were tested, you have no idea whether or not they had it. My sister and her DH tested positive. None of their kids showed any symptoms at all. All three tested positive.


My 3 and 5 year old didn’t have a single symptom either.


Did the parents of either of these PPs have symptoms?
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2020 22:34     Subject: Re:Teacher tested positive!
Anonymous wrote:Unless all the kids were tested, you have no idea whether or not they had it. My sister and her DH tested positive. None of their kids showed any symptoms at all. All three tested positive.


this. WERE the kids in that room all tested? (at the very least?)
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2020 21:20     Subject: Re:Teacher tested positive!
As with so many COVID-related issues these days, people on both sides of this debate are being willfully ignorant of the weaknesses in their argument. Some posters here arguing that daycare and school are safe refuse to acknowledge that in a room full of kids with a positive teacher, it’s entirely possible one of more of the kids had the virus but was asymptomatic. And other posters who think daycare and school are unsafe are refusing to acknowledge that if all or most of those kids got the virus, it’s likely at least one kid’s parent or other family member would have gotten it and developed symptoms.

Bottom line: this is a complicated issue. It’s not black and white.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2020 20:07     Subject: Re:Teacher tested positive!
Anonymous wrote:Unless all the kids were tested, you have no idea whether or not they had it. My sister and her DH tested positive. None of their kids showed any symptoms at all. All three tested positive.


My 3 and 5 year old didn’t have a single symptom either.