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posted by martyb on Wednesday August 12 2020, @02:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the What-would-Gomer-Pyle-say? dept.

HS that suspended teen who tweeted photo of hallway has 9 COVID-19 cases:

North Paulding High School in Dallas, Georgia, sent a letter to parents Saturday, saying, "At this time, we know there were six students and three staff members who were in school for at least some time last week who have since reported to us that they have tested positive." The letter was published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Most or even all of the six students and three staff members who tested positive could have had the virus before the school reopened on Monday, August 3. As Harvard Medical School explains, "The time from exposure to symptom onset (known as the incubation period) is thought to be three to 14 days, though symptoms typically appear within four or five days after exposure," and "a person with COVID-19 may be contagious 48 to 72 hours before starting to experience symptoms."

[...] As we reported Friday, the school issued a five-day suspension to student Hannah Watters after she posted a photo to Twitter, noting the "jammed" hallways and "10 percent mask rate." The school lifted her suspension after extensive media coverage. One other unnamed student who was suspended for a similar reason also had the suspension reversed, the Journal-Constitution said.

Students attended class in person only on Monday through Wednesday, as the district said it conducted a short first week "so that all of our schools can step back and assess how things are going so far."

Update at 6:50pm ET: North Paulding High School announced Sunday that it has canceled in-person instruction for Monday and Tuesday, August 10 and 11, because of the nine positive cases and "the possibility that number could increase if there are currently pending tests that prove positive." The school said that on Tuesday evening, parents and students will be notified about whether in-person instruction will resume on Wednesday. Remote learning will continue while the school is closed.


Previously:
(2020-08-08) Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @07:01PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @07:01PM (#1035716)

    Your anti-public schooling schtick is getting boring. If the public schools in your area are bad, that's a local issue, not some universal truth. Students in school districts that are run competently with adequate funding get a good education that covers all of your areas of complaint.

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday August 12 2020, @07:54PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday August 12 2020, @07:54PM (#1035750) Journal

    Your triumphalism schtick is getting boring. If the public schools in your area are good, that's a local issue, not some universal truth. Students in school districts that are run competently with adequate funding get a good education that covers all of your areas of complaint, if they're white/asian/south asian and upper middle class or better.

    Thanks for demonstrating your ignorance of the educational realities that most black and Latino children, and some others of other ethnicities, face in America's urban school districts.

    --
    Washington DC delenda est.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @08:45PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @08:45PM (#1035776)

      Your copy/paste skills are great, keep it up, very convincing. So much wow, possibly even a shamwow.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2020, @04:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2020, @04:16PM (#1036192)

      I understand that inner city schools have lots of issues, but that doesn't make public school bad, that just makes the administrations running those school districts bad. I went to an incredibly diverse school with only a 50% white population, still got a good education.