How transparent is your district about covid cases?

[PZMommy]

My district back home has cases at 18 out of 42 schools. They also are starting to have new outbreaks at nursing homes. This is an area that is very pro trump and doesn’t believe in wearing masks or that the virus is serious. The health department is blaming the teachers for not following rules and keeping the kids safe. However, I think it is more that the community spread is getting bad and masks aren’t required at many places.

[essnce629]

We're still remote here in LA but my best friends are teachers in San Diego. My one friend has been back in person for 2 weeks now and is a science enrichment teacher at 2 different elementary schools. She said there's 2 classrooms home on quarantine in one school and 1 classroom home on quarantine at her other school. Luckily since she's a specials teacher she doesn't teach IN the classroom since she teaches all grades at both schools and that would be to many possible exposures. They have her teaching right outside the doorway to each class so she doesn't enter the classrooms! For the 3 classes home on quarantine she teaches remotely.

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[wendibird22]

You can now look at daily stats for every K-12 school, district, and college in the state of NY: https://schoolcovidreportcard.health.ny.gov/#/home
The dashboard shows number of in school positives, out of school positives, and employee positives.

I looked up my kids' district and the nice feature is that from the dropdown menu you can also look at the data for neighboring school districts, which is helpful for kids' activities/sports, visiting neighboring towns, etc.

[doberbrat]

School started 9/16. 1st letter for a positive case went out ....... on 9/16! 2nd letter went out (for a different school) on ..... 9/18.
Our school got its first letter today. 9/24. 6 days and 3 cases. Keeping in mind that most schools have less than 50 kids in the building. Its going to be a LONG year!

The community at large isnt notified. Only members of each school are told. You get a letter if you're not directly affected and a phone call if you are. I wish we had a dashboard.

[legaleagle]

All virtual here. There have a been a few news article about the number of private schools affected (at least 13 as of a couple weeks ago in our county) but no details on which schools those were publicly. No idea what kind of notification kids at those schools are getting.

[acmom]

You can now look at daily stats for every K-12 school, district, and college in the state of NY: https://schoolcovidreportcard.health.ny.gov/#/home
The dashboard shows number of in school positives, out of school positives, and employee positives.

I looked up my kids' district and the nice feature is that from the dropdown menu you can also look at the data for neighboring school districts, which is helpful for kids' activities/sports, visiting neighboring towns, etc.

We are in NY too and I have checked out the dashboard for our school district several times. There seems to be a lag in the data, as our district has 0 cases reported on the NY dashboard, but we have been notified of 3 over the past week. I'm hopeful that this is bc it just got up and running and moving forward, the data will be more current.

[Dayzy]

We are in NY too and I have checked out the dashboard for our school district several times. There seems to be a lag in the data, as our district has 0 cases reported on the NY dashboard, but we have been notified of 3 over the past week. I'm hopeful that this is bc it just got up and running and moving forward, the data will be more current.

We've been keeping an eye on my area and it's reporting 1 for the jr. high (which the district was very forthcoming about and alerted families right away) and 1 for the high school. The problem is that there aren't any cases at the high school. District officials are trying to get it fixed. We think it's going by address and not really checking the schools because there was a private high school nearby with a positive case that's not being shown, but they student lived in our district.

[ang79]

Got an email last night that an entire classroom has been quarantined at DD2's school. Earlier in the week a student had tested positive, now some other students in that class are showing symptoms so they are quarantining the teacher and the whole class for 14 days. So glad my kids are doing the cyber school!

[MSWR0319]

Got an email last night that an entire classroom has been quarantined at DD2's school. Earlier in the week a student had tested positive, now some other students in that class are showing symptoms so they are quarantining the teacher and the whole class for 14 days. So glad my kids are doing the cyber school!

Kudos to your school for at least doing that! Our school didn't quarantine one single person when the teacher went to school with Covid because she wasn't within 6 feet for 15 constant minutes of anyone. I'm sure if a student came down with it, they'd say the same thing.

[doberbrat]

Kudos to your school for at least doing that! Our school didn't quarantine one single person when the teacher went to school with Covid because she wasn't within 6 feet for 15 constant minutes of anyone. I'm sure if a student came down with it, they'd say the same thing.

Wait, did the teacher know she had it?? Its one thing to feel ok in the am and then in the afternoon realize you are sick and positive. Its quite another to get a + test (or be waiting for a result) and still go to school.