Published February 4, 2021 •
Updated on February 5, 2021 at 12:08 pm
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Two days after the Escondido Union School District returned to hybrid-model in-classroom teaching, 81 students and 18 staff members at four schools have been quarantined.
The members of the community were quarantined after seven different students tested positive at four different schools. According to the district’s COVID-19 dashboard:
Four of the positive cases are at Farr Elementary, leading to 44 students and 5 staff members being placed under quarantine
At Pioneer Elementary, 1 positive case has led to 9 students and 2 staff members being quarantined
At Rock Springs Elementary, 12 students have been quarantined as the result of 1 positive case.
A California school district reopened in-person learning. In two days, 81 students were quarantined.
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The front of Farr Elementary in Escondido, Calif., where four cases of COVID-19 were reported.Google Street View/Screenshot
Only seven cases were reported across four different schools.
But out of an abundance of caution, 81 elementary and middle school students at Escondido Union School District in San Diego County have been quarantined along with 11 staff members only two days after the district re-opened for hybrid, in-person learning, KNSD in San Diego first reported. (Four other district maintenance workers were quarantined after a separate case.) They will be quarantining for 10 days.
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As schools reopened in the fall, teachers and administrators struggled with the effects of the pandemic, striving to follow COVID-19 precautions and keep classrooms safe.
One by one, however, districts that reopened have shut down campuses again, as positive COVID-19 cases have emerged. The problem isn’t that the virus is spreading widely on campus, but that scattered positive cases set off chain reactions that make it difficult or impossible to keep schools running in-person.
The schools that reopened have taken steps to prevent COVID-19 transmission, and imposed quarantines when positive cases were reported. If a student, staff member or teacher turns up positive, school officials trace and notify close contacts, and place those people in isolation as well. When teachers or other employees are sent home, schools must find replacements to fulfill their duties.