School leadership should have a clear program in place that starts with CDC / OSSE / DC requirements and tailors them to the unique environmental elements of the school.

Observations are that when risk mitigation protocols are followed, spread is limited in school environments.

SSMA has always had problems with communications and decision making. Find another place for your child. You will be much happoer.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, DO NOT try to stick it out. Flee now.

+1

Agreed. I am sad for your boy. Find a more stable situation for him as soon as possible. It sounds like he is going to thrive at school.

+1. He really does sound like he's going to do great, and the best thing you can do is get him in a stable learning environment.

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, OP I'm so sorry. I'd be incredibly frustrated in that situation. The cautiousness around Covid is understandable, the inability to communicate or follow clear guidance for families is not. The fact that they turned people away at the door today is awful. Especially for really young students like yours -- it can take weeks for a child that age to recover from that kind of surprise/frustration at a new school (not always and I hope your son gets over it quickly for both of your sakes) and it was completely avoidable.

This was my though as well. I'm less sympathetic to the "after only 2 days" line of thinking because Covid doesn't care about the calendar. But it sounds like they haven't published clear guidance about what constitutes close contact and whether and when individual cohorts vs the entire school should be impacted. Plus. the lack of communication is totally unacceptable. Our school texts, robo-calls and emails everything.

This year is going to see lots of Covid disruptions. Schools can't control that. But they can control how they react and communicate with their communities. Based on what OP posted I would be running away from SS.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Our IB is Bunker Hill. That was 11 and SS was 10 for us, so I'm not sure the process to get in there now, since i'm not waitlisted there anymore. Lee is on my list, i'm waitlist number 110 (and that is one of the lowest waitlist numbers we got).

I am not sure where you work - I am a huge fan of the leadership at I Dream Academy
https://www.idreampcs.org/

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Anonymous wrote:OP, DO NOT try to stick it out. Flee now.

+1

Agreed. I am sad for your boy. Find a more stable situation for him as soon as possible. It sounds like he is going to thrive at school.