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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
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday August 12 2020, @07:50PM (2 children)
I agree. I said initially that instead of switching public schools on and off again willy-nilly, we should switch them off. Homeschool in the meantime and move on to something new and better.
There are experimental programs here and there that are trying what you propose (and I also support), but there is deep-seated resistance to change in the system, with no real incentive to change. If parents walk away after the coronavirus shutdowns, perhaps they will find the will to make those changes, but in the end parents and students can't wait for the education industry to catch up to economic realities that came about 80 years ago. For once in history the tools to learn are widely available and cheap or free, so we should seize those opportunities for ourselves and kids and let the education dinosaurs die out.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @09:23PM
Or, bear with me here, we put all the corrupt assholes in prison and appoint a real educator instead of some greedy evangelical bitch?
Nah, makes too much sense. Better burn the whole country down and let the Native Americans rebuild.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @11:07PM
Ah, you tilt your hand. It was all a ploy to denigrate institutions that are bombarded by rightwing assholes to make them as dysfunctional as possible, all so the same assholes can privatize schools to leech even more money from the average American.
You sir are a cock gobbling wanker and the world would be better off without you.