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Post by abs on Jun 1, 2021 15:46:00 GMT -6
Question for those whose kids are in school in person: about how big is their school, and about how often are you notified of a case in the school? PK-5 school. We have around 650 in a normal year but this year it was less. We are out for summer now but we were notified by the principal anytime there was a positive case on campus. We weren’t told where though unless we were a close contact. There were not many notifications. Maybe 15-20 all year? Most came in December/January/February,
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Post by abs on Jun 1, 2021 15:49:39 GMT -6
Question for those whose kids are in school in person: about how big is their school, and about how often are you notified of a case in the school? PK-5 school. We have around 650 in a normal year but this year it was less. We are out for summer now but we were notified by the principal anytime there was a positive case on campus. We weren’t told where though unless we were a close contact. There were not many notifications. Maybe 15-20 all year? Most came in December/January/February, ETA: as far as I know there was no spread in the school because mask compliance was fantastic. Even when there was a case in DD’s class we were good. Next year with no masks and probably no reporting? Well.
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Post by piratecat on Jun 1, 2021 16:33:37 GMT -6
Are any of your schools doing pooled testing? Our state is starting a program for schools to opt into, which then allows them to relax social distancing rules. Masks are still required for schools and childcare settings.
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Post by piratecat on Jun 1, 2021 16:35:16 GMT -6
Maine is down to two-digit case numbers which is encouraging but we’ve also dropped pretty much all restrictions so I’m nervous that the numbers will go right back up.
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Post by 100poppies on Jun 1, 2021 16:45:02 GMT -6
Small town school—we have about 45-50 kids per grade in three classes. The classes never mix, everyone’s in masks and no outside people allowed in. I get emails anytime there’s a positive case anywhere in the system (includes the middle school as well), and close contacts would be specifically notified as well. If a class, say Ms. Greens’ second grade class, had a positive, the class was sent home for two weeks to do virtual school.
We’ve gotten 4-6 notifications about a positive case in the school system (about half in the middle school, and at least 3 cases were staff or faculty specifically). My sense is that kids were getting it outside of school and I haven’t heard of any spread. It’s a small town, and I’d definitly hear if a classmate had gotten it from school.
Our current case count is 0 for the city and county, with about 50% vaccinated.
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Post by carmensandiego on Jun 1, 2021 17:31:02 GMT -6
Question for those whose kids are in school in person: about how big is their school, and about how often are you notified of a case in the school? We have been in person since August. Or school is K-6 and there are about 675 in our school. We had 18 total cases (students and staff). Until the last two weeks of school, there was a mask mandate. If there was a case in the first grade, all first grade parents were notified of a secondary case.
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Post by mayday on Jun 1, 2021 17:36:10 GMT -6
Question for those whose kids are in school in person: about how big is their school, and about how often are you notified of a case in the school? My kids are in school physically twice a week. We’ve only heard of 3 cases. One the first week any kids were back in the beginning of March and two within one week more recently.
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Post by mayday on Jun 1, 2021 17:37:48 GMT -6
Question for those whose kids are in school in person: about how big is their school, and about how often are you notified of a case in the school? My kids are in school physically twice a week. We’ve only heard of 3 cases. One the first week any kids were back in the beginning of March and two within one week more recently. Quoting myself...... normally we have about 900 kids. At the moment it’s around 300 a day.
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Post by mayday on Jun 1, 2021 17:39:47 GMT -6
It’s stressful for sure. There are 3 elementary schools in our neighborhood, and from Jan -April is seemed like at least one was always closed, which meant at least 2 positives. A lot of our positives have actually not been kids though. We were closed last when a teacher and an aide who distributes meals to multiple classrooms both had positives, but no kids were reported. The emails I get actually specify whether it was a student. I also have to remind myself that the identification of cases at a school does not necessarily mean it was contracted at school. Maybe some people are taking their kids to kiddie raves or something. #showerthoughts None of our schools cases were contracted at school and no class has had to quarantine due to exposure.
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Post by cmb on Jun 1, 2021 17:47:33 GMT -6
Question for those whose kids are in school in person: about how big is their school, and about how often are you notified of a case in the school? We have about 200 in the building, K-3. Our building in particular has little spurts, but it has been 2ish months, i think, since the last case. The district sends out district wide notifications nightly if there is a new case and reveals what building. You get notified separately if it is your kid quarantined and before the district wide email. Last district email was... last tuesday? Somewhere around there It was rather sudden how we went from multiple cases in the district per day to maybe one email a week. Most of our cases were teachers and 7-12, though I tried to look up the numbers from the year, but the reporting site isn’t cooperating. ETA- district wide is 321 total positives since September, 262 students, 59 teachers/staff. The 7-12 year olds make up 145 student and 20 teacher/staff positives. The rest are spread among 6 schools of K-3 and the JRHS that houses the 4-6th grade students, split into wings based on home elementary (elementary goes K-6 here in a normal year). Our school in particular was 16 students, 8 teachers/staff. These numbers are both in person and virtual students. I underestimated the population of our particular school. It is 293 in person, about 400 total. We had spread in one room in October that caused 6 positives. We had both a teacher caused and a student caused quarantine, but our county likes to quarantine anyone who stepped into the same room as the positive, regardless of anything like distance or room size. Out of 5 quarantines, only once have we met the definition of close contact, actually, but county gives no fucks They did random testing in February and then stopped it. No cases found. This was when the county was begging them to close during our winter surge. I don’t think they are going to do it again
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Post by Ls2012 on Jun 1, 2021 17:52:49 GMT -6
Question for those whose kids are in school in person: about how big is their school, and about how often are you notified of a case in the school? Dd2's elementary is about 450 students, but the district sends out an email whenever there's a positive case in any building- so each of the 3 elementary schools, the middle school, and the high school. 95% have been about the high school, with maybe 3% for the middle school and the other 2% all the elementaries combined. For a long time, emails were coming daily. Last week there were only 2.
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Post by dc2london on Jun 1, 2021 18:03:18 GMT -6
My kids are in school physically twice a week. We’ve only heard of 3 cases. One the first week any kids were back in the beginning of March and two within one week more recently. Quoting myself...... normally we have about 900 kids. At the moment it’s around 300 a day. That's what has me pondering. If I'm still regularly hearing about infected elementary kids when only 300 kids are in the building, why are they so confident they can keep everyone safe with 900 kids in the building. But, again, kids in the school contracting covid =/= they contracted it at school and it doesn't seem like there have been any outbreaks leading to building closures.
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Post by mayday on Jun 1, 2021 18:09:00 GMT -6
Quoting myself...... normally we have about 900 kids. At the moment it’s around 300 a day. That's what has me pondering. If I'm still regularly hearing about infected elementary kids when only 300 kids are in the building, why are they so confident they can keep everyone safe with 900 kids in the building. But, again, kids in the school contracting covid =/= they contracted it at school and it doesn't seem like there have been any outbreaks leading to building closures. Our kids are still masked and my county still has them distanced and not mingling with other classes. They do transition rooms for some classes though. It will be interesting to see in the fall how it all works out. I am honestly surprised we have only had a few cases. We are down to 1 percent positivity in the county and the rate is currently I think 2 per 100k or maybe 4 per 100k. I think had they gone back earlier they would’ve had more spread.
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Post by oreobitsy on Jun 1, 2021 20:31:09 GMT -6
We have 400ish kids in our K-5 and were in person since August. My kid was quarantined for a contact once but was ok. They only sent emails to the class associated with a positive and the nurse contacted the close contacts. We had a dashboard to observe but it was useless. I was Team Trust No One all year.
Today was the first day of the no mask mandate in schools. Only two kids apparently pulled their masks off because “hey guys, we don’t have to wear them!” They were also two of the only kids in the class to have Covid or family members with Covid, so I don’t think their family was too into Covid safety in the first place.
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Post by sweetpea on Jun 2, 2021 1:14:38 GMT -6
Question for those whose kids are in school in person: about how big is their school, and about how often are you notified of a case in the school? We have 700 students doing the extended in person learning (aka 4 hr). A class has about 23 students. Since we went to this in mid-April we’ve had 3 school based cases and 2 community based cases. Before then school was AM/PM where half the class attended school in AM, half in PM. About the same number of cases from Jan-March. We get notified after they notify close contacts.
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Post by blablabirdie on Jun 2, 2021 3:13:52 GMT -6
I think these numbers show that the measures everyone has taken have been really effective. Please don’t let these numbers scare you, we literally do nothing to prevent spread in schools even while we had really high community spread.
Total students 350 Each class has 20 kids
Communication has devolved and we are now only contacted if there is a positive in the class - even if kids go to after school care in different groupings.
My eldest son is up to I think 14/20 kids tested positive. Hard to keep track. Weren’t notified about all cases via school some via parent network. Teacher also sick. Two large outbreaks.
My youngest is at 6/20 - but there is no Parent network so these are only what we know of from school comms.
I’m very jealous of your numbers. We got it from school and still have no idea how many cases were related to that as we only heard about the one class.
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Post by blurnette989 on Jun 2, 2021 3:18:25 GMT -6
Quoting myself...... normally we have about 900 kids. At the moment it’s around 300 a day. That's what has me pondering. If I'm still regularly hearing about infected elementary kids when only 300 kids are in the building, why are they so confident they can keep everyone safe with 900 kids in the building. But, again, kids in the school contracting covid =/= they contracted it at school and it doesn't seem like there have been any outbreaks leading to building closures. Yeah. This. My boys go to the same school which has 1 sped class, 3 Pre-K/k classes, and then 2 classes each of first through fourth. Children may but are not required to mask and i would say it's pretty split on whether the kids do. All teacher and staff wear masks. Every instance of a covid+ child has contracted from home (we have substantial contact tracing). The kindergarten got shut down about a week before all of school closed in person at Christmas until Easter due to massive spike in cases. That stemmed from one teacher asst spreading it to other teaching assistants likely in their lunch break room. Not a single child contracted covid from school adults though, but 8 adults gave it to each other. Basically with only teachers wearing masks they haven't found any examples of adult to child transmission *in* school. Since March we've had no cases in our school and i checked we have no active cases in the he whole district. But they didn't send kids back to school until our strict lockdown had us back to cases under 600 a day for 10.3 mil people.
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Post by blurnette989 on Jun 2, 2021 3:20:55 GMT -6
Oh and for reporting they tell us if someone in the class tests positive. But not who- but i live in a small town and we all knew exactly who got sick when and who they got it from.
Oh and confident on no missed asymptomatic cases because if there is one positive in a class the whole class including teachers gets mandatory testing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2021 4:13:01 GMT -6
Small school here (500 k-12 in 1 building). We’ve had 25ish cases mainly in kids since September. No school spread. As a district we were notified of every case in the beginning now it seems only impacted kids are notified. A large # of our cases were from post spring break travel.
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Post by fancynewbeesly on Jun 2, 2021 4:32:02 GMT -6
We have a big school. Roughly 700 kids grades K-5. We get a notification letter if ANYONE (staff or student) tested positive. Between January-March we were still hybrid. But we were getting multiple notifications a week. Some of the letters said individuals. Other said individual.
It was rough. Since then though maybe we get a notice every 2 weeks. We are all back in the classroom but still half days.
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Post by cribs on Jun 2, 2021 5:11:19 GMT -6
dc2london Our school is about 450 kids and teachers. We had 16 cases this year. 2 teacher and the rest students. We actually only had 8 until 6 weeks ago but a couple of families got Covid and our number shot up. We get an email each week and have a state dashboard that has them all listed. Our school has been full time all year and has no in school transmission. I actually believe the school because they are so strict with everything. We are still six feet, masked and distanced. The kids are also outside a ton. If you have any questions or want to chit chat about it I'm around. It was a long process for us to decide what to do last fall. My oldest is high risk because of adrenal issues and she also has asthma. My son has a metabolic disorder that would also be a thing if he got covid
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Post by klw on Jun 2, 2021 5:12:59 GMT -6
DDs elementary school is K to 5 has about 1/2 doing in person (all day, 5 days a week) so roughly 300. Since January, I think I have probably gotten an email a week about a positive case. It doesn't say if it was a student or staff. Her school is also the location of special programs and I am assuming many of them don't wear a mask.
I work in our districts preK program. We've had a few cases but again very few masks and little social distancing.
Only one elementary school in our district had to close for a week. The was a few cases (plus the close contact quarintines) which I think was linked to a bus
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Post by gymngemini on Jun 2, 2021 6:57:53 GMT -6
Question for those whose kids are in school in person: about how big is their school, and about how often are you notified of a case in the school? So I'm late to this but I wanted to check my district stats. Today is the last day of school. The district as a whole had 145 student case, 80 staff from the time they started tracking in October. Elementary (K-4, in 5 buildings) had 36 student cases and 29 staff cases. There are approximately 400 students per graduating class. Now, we were also basically fully remote until mid January, with two weeks of in person option in November prior to Thanksgiving. Elementary did not do a hybrid learning at all - it was either online or in person when available. The only class quarantine was a kindergarten class. No school shutdowns at all. I know of a winter sport that had a few pauses because my H coaches in normal times, but that was at the high school level and mostly while school was fully remote. We got district wide emails with counts daily through March sometime, then it switched to only when new cases were reported. We were told student or staff, building and the last time the person was in the building. Eta: Elementary schools were only at 3 feet distance, and the vast majority of student cases were at the high school level (79). Staff was spread pretty evenly through the district.
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Post by byjove on Jun 2, 2021 7:09:32 GMT -6
We have 900 kids k-5 in our elementary school. About 2/3rds of kids are back, but hybrid. There has been one case in the school (don't know if teacher or student) since March 1, when kids started coming back. I'm guessing since there was only 1 case, that it did not spread nor was contracted at school.
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Post by trueblue on Jun 2, 2021 7:40:46 GMT -6
Question for those whose kids are in school in person: about how big is their school, and about how often are you notified of a case in the school? Middle school (6-8th): 1300 +\- in normal times; they didn’t publish numbers this year for virtual v in person on a school by school basis. We are notified if our child is determined to be a contact to give a heads up; close contacts get additional details and monitoring. We have only been notified of contacts (assuming on the bus based on follow up questions to my kid on who is absent from class) Knock on wood we have not gotten any communications since January, when our area spiked, ironically when we were just returning to hybrid. Since returning FT face to face we haven’t gotten anything. Elementary school (pre-k4 to 5th): 800 +\- in normal times; same routine as middle school but we’ve never gotten a notice. Eta: our district runs a spreadsheet broken down by school/staff/students which was really helpful for monitoring how things were going in the absence of updates but I lost the link
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Post by elle on Jun 2, 2021 8:05:31 GMT -6
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Post by taconight on Jun 2, 2021 8:21:27 GMT -6
Question for those whose kids are in school in person: about how big is their school, and about how often are you notified of a case in the school? Our K-6 school has 700 students. We got maybe 15-20 notices of cases from school from Sept thru May, none were close contact so my kids never had to quarantine. There wasn't any school-based spread. Class size was 14-17 throughout the year. They sent notices for any cases, whether they were in-person or remote, so some of those cases were kids or teachers not even in the school. There were about 50% remote in the beginning, and 30% remote at the end. ETA: Our district also had a dashboard so we could see how many cases were at each school split up by students and teachers at any time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2021 8:41:32 GMT -6
I will say NYs Covid dashboard has been really nice. It gives an idea of what’s going on in the school even if we aren’t notified.
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Post by nelzie on Jun 2, 2021 8:49:30 GMT -6
Our building is PreK-2nd and has about 700 kids. We started the year hybrid, then went full time for about a month in October, then back to hybrid until mid January and have been full time since.
Masks were mandatory until the last week of school. Social distancing wasn't really possible when they were full time. They did distance them at lunch time and for snacks they set a timer for less than 10 min.
There was a cluster in the kindergarten/teachers in November and a cluster in the 8th grade in Jan or Feb. We lucked out and never had a close contact with either of our kids so never had to quarantine but almost all of my friends kids had to. Per the dashboard, our building has been at 0 or <6 cases at least since Jan.
I'm guessing the 8th grade cluster came from sports, particularly wrestling. I'm pretty sure the kindergarten cluster was mostly teachers.
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Post by dc2london on Jun 2, 2021 10:00:28 GMT -6
We have 900 kids k-5 in our elementary school. About 2/3rds of kids are back, but hybrid. There has been one case in the school (don't know if teacher or student) since March 1, when kids started coming back. I'm guessing since there was only 1 case, that it did not spread nor was contracted at school. That's very different from the like 20 cases S2's school has had
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