Sending hugs. What a lot of stress to deal with, even if you don’t have to quarantine (which hopefully you don’t and even more importantly, hopefully your son doesn’t get it whether he has to quarantine or not.)
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So who would they expect to quarantine? Would the vaccinated parents and older siblings have to quarantine or just the 1st grader and any family members who are unvaccinated?
They can’t force anyone but students in the school district to quarantine, of course. So both our kids would have to stay home from school. In practice, we would all quarantine for the full time until testing could happen. So for us, that would mean just staying home and getting stuff delivered, kind of like a return to the first several months of the pandemic.
Fortunately, no direct contact (as far as the school can tell us) this time.
I think at a lot of schools they are having unvaccinated kids who were determined to have “close contact” with the affected kid quarantine.
First graders are too young to be vaccinated still, so the question would be whether the school thought NA’s first grader had “close contact” with the infected kid or not.
my 10th grader got 3 letters today. a kid in 3 different classes (possibly the same kid) tested positive. my kid was not a close contact. also, since we have masking required, those close contacts without symptoms need not quarantine. same with being vaccinated (which my kid is).
school people said first week the district had like 7 cases. last friday they reported another 10 cases or so. after the weekend, they heard about 11 more i think. so our case load is growing.
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Our small upper middle class district, which publishes the stats on the website, has one school with 0 cases all year, and the rest had an average of 9.5 cases per school just last week. Plus more labeled as “district office, transportation, maintenance”.
I’d thought about subbing on days I don’t have to go to work, but I can’t think of a non-bitchy way to make it contingent upon requiring masks in the 7-12 schools, plus I doubt I have enough clout to affect change in that regard.
(Last I heard they aren’t requiring masks for those grades, but I dropped out of the pro-mask Facebook group as it devolved into whining about abortion and other issues completely unrelated to masking so I’m not actually sure if anything’s changed.)
if you have subbed before, they likely call you. tell them the condition then and if they don’t require decline and tell them why. it isn’t bitchy at all.
if you have never subbed before, then call them and inquire about subbing. they will be thrilled to hear your interest (massive sub shortages) and then say “btw, what is the mask requirement?” when they say “optional” you can then say, “oh, never mind.” not bitchy at all.
if you seek out the chance ask about subbing ONLY to comment on masks, there are more efficient ways to express that.
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Hmmm… interesting idea. I kind of doubt it would go further than the secretary in the district office though.
I’m not sure what this means.
Go back and read you last response to tommie. It might dawn on you.
A friend’s kids had to quarantine at home with her after positive cases in their school. While they were stuck inside, my gf and I brought over a care package of pizza and Maltesers. Her son asked what the nice people were going to bring the next day!! 
They all tested negative and everything is back to normal. 
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2 kids in their 5th week of school. I haven’t seen anything related to notices, cases, or quarantine. No updates on the website since first day of school.
doing well, or heads buried in sand?
If they’re not publishing the numbers I would not default to assuming they are good.
Local district here has them on the website for all to see.
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My kids started on August 10th, so six weeks ago today. I haven’t heard any notices at all. I just looked it up on the district website and it looks like the elementary school has only had 9 total cases (6 student 3 staff) since starting. Never more than one new case on any given day, and it looks like no more than 2 cases on any given week.
it means that if you only want to ask about subbing so you can lodge a complaint about the mask policy, the more efficient way is to…just lodge a complaint about the mask policy.
As a concerned citizen… I’m not sure they care. I kinda think they’re up to their eyeballs with complaints from parents.
I really would consider subbing if they required masks, but I know they don’t.
I dont think they are hiding them. I think they are not even tracking them.
The last 2 public school meetings have been canceled on the spot due to disruptions over angry parents protesting school mask rules. We literally cant even get started. Worried we are going to start showing up on national news…
wana protest something? how about protest how our school has like no resources and was already barley functioning pre pandemic. Its mind blowing that they are somehow keeping things going now. Board deserves a standing ovation imo.
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The biggest beefs in my school district:
- spending money on upgrading the sports fields (I think it’s bullshit, but whatever)
- the supposed impurities in the water in the schools, coming from water testing. Except the kids, due to current restrictions, don’t drink the school water. They do wash their hands (I hope)… BUT
- b/c of some dumbass TikTok thing called Devious Licks, the bathrooms are being vandalized, so the kids can’t wash their hands
Anyway, masking is not controversial in our local schools.
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Oh I saw something about that on Facebook. Good Lord. I used to be a big proponent of the first amendment but some of the stuff people come up with makes me question my support for people’s right to be complete and utter a-holes.
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