Yes, the entire school is notified by email if there is a case, the district posts it on their website and then additionally people deemed within close contact that need to test/quarantine are notified by email. Our district has several certified contact tracers on payroll.
Yes, they send out notices. You are contacted individually if your child was in contact. And they don't mess around. I got a call from the Principal of my 6th grader because they had him logged into the bathroom after a "potential" case. The child's parent tested positive. They will contact me if that student is positive. They even told me he used a separate stall. lol they are keeping extremely tight records. They are closing school/going remote as needed. We just were put on district-wide remote plan through thanksgiving.
Yes, we have a fancy dashboard that shows all cases in the district. It shows which school, how many cases, whether it’s students or staff, and recovered vs active. All the districts around here seem to have similar dashboards. We’re not told which classroom unless our kid is in an impacted classroom (which hasn’t happened yet for elementary but did happen for my preschooler and he was quarantined for 14 days).
Post by redheadbaker on Nov 11, 2020 19:31:53 GMT -5
We get an email from the superintendent about positives. They usually include the date of the first time the person experienced symptoms (if applicable), the date they tested positive, and the last time they were in the building. My son is 100% virtual so I don't know how they notify those who came in close contact with the infected person.
Our school notifies for cases in the school (staff or student) or if there's a "community case" meaning someone who lives with a staff or student is infected.
Those who are in a class with a positive person, or positive community case get called directly by the school admin staff with instructions about testing/self-isolating, etc. If it's not our kids class or a teacher that circulates (i.e. gym, music, librarian) then we just get a generic e-mail. So far we've only had one community case and no actual staff/student cases.