Speaking of wild selfishness
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........Then a message popped up on a Facebook page for the school community last week. It was written by a staff member and came at the end of a particularly trying week at the school, one that saw students in seven classes forced into quarantine because at least one child in each had tested positive for the coronavirus. One of those classes belonged to my 9-year-old son.
“Many of you were inconvenienced by the quarantine protocols enacted in your child’s classroom this past week,” the message read. “Several of those class quarantines would have been avoided if people had given their actions careful consideration before doing them. … The actions of a few this week have upset many families and caused distress, as well as left our staff stunned and, frankly, a little hurt at the disregard for our community’s health and well-being.”
It went on to list three actions that had caused some of the disruptions. Two of them: children sent to school before their quarantine time was up, and children sent to school while their families awaited their coronavirus test results.
Those were concerning, but they weren’t as surprising as the third reason given. That paragraph read: “Do not withhold positive test results. All positive Covid-19 test results are reported to the Virginia Department of Health (VDH). All APS schools have Public Health Nurses (PHN) in their clinics, and they are given notification of these results by the VDH. There may be a delay in notification due to the backlog of paperwork, but the results will eventually make it to the school. Sending your child to school knowing they have a positive test is purposely putting the community at risk and will also spur the quarantining of an entire classroom.”
I read it again before I accepted what it was saying: Parents had lied. Parents had put their individual needs before the safety of their community. They knew their children, showing symptoms or not, were carrying a potentially deadly virus, and they sent them anyway into a building where they would spend nearly seven hours around staff members and dozens of other children...............
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i...ling-virginia-s-kids/ar-AASWR0y?ocid=msedgntp