A Massachusetts teenager tested positive for the coronavirus. His parents sent him to school anyway.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Six students tested positive for the novel coronavirus days before Attleboro High School in Massachusetts reopened its doors for the first day of school this week. Only five of them stayed home, the city’s mayor told WJAR.

The parents of the sixth student who tested positive for the virus that causes covid-19 sent him to class anyway, the mayor said. Now, 28 students who were in close contact with the teenager have to quarantine for two weeks.

“It was a reckless action to send a child — a teenager — to school who was covid-positive,” Attleboro Mayor Paul Heroux (D) told WHDH. “It was really poor judgment. If you know that your child has coronavirus, is covid-positive, you should not send your child to school under any circumstances.”

As the new academic year begins, schools nationwide have had to cope with students coming to school despite knowing that they have the highly infectious virus. In Oklahoma City, a student also attended the first day in class despite testing positive for the coronavirus. The parents of the student said they thought the quarantine was only for five days because the child was asymptomatic. As a result, 17 students had to quarantine. A student in Greenfield, Ind., meanwhile, tested positive on the first day of school after the parents sent the child while awaiting test results.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-massachusetts-teenager-tested-positive-for-the-coronavirus-his-parents-sent-him-to-school-anyway/ar-BB19ay9r?li=BBnb7Kz

Some selfish people

[iemitsu]

1. There needs to be some sort of fine or punishment for this behavior.

These students and their families will, at some point, be responsible for someone else's death.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. In A Pandemic That By Year End...

...will have killed at least 250,000 people, this action seems to fit the definition of reckless endangerment.
I'm not a lawyer, but here's the Find Law definition.

Reckless Endangerment
reckless endangerment n

: the criminal offense of recklessly engaging in conduct that creates a substantial risk of serious physical injury or death to another person. Whether you meant any harm or not, creating a situation that puts someone else at risk is illegal.

Examples can include driving carelessly, car accidents, workplace accidents, child abuse, hospital abuse, etc.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I'm not surprised. Parents send their contagious children to school with everything

from colds, flu, chicken pox, head lice. They don't see themselves are spreaders of disease.

[bottomofthehill]

4. He is in high school

It will be even worse on an elementary school level as parents look at public education as both education and daycare.

[crickets]

5. I'm not sure I believe their excuse.

Sadly, it's a good bet they aren't the first parents to do this, nor will they be the last.

Thanks for convincing a substantial slice of the population that it's no big deal, donnie.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

6. I'm sure he's not the first by a long shot.

I teach high school in Wisconsin. I'm just waiting for the cases to explode.

[roamer65]

7. If anyone dies from this exposure, try the parents for manslaughter.

[Klaralven]

8. Laws against spreading communicable diseases are pretty weak

Is It a Crime to Intentionally Get Someone Sick?

Spreading the common cold doesn’t carry criminal consequences. But intentional or reckless behavior that spreads a disease with serious public health consequences—such as HIV, SARS, Ebola, or COVID-19—can result in criminal charges.

A majority of states have communicable disease laws that make it a crime to expose another person to a contagious disease on purpose. Even without a specific communicable disease statute, all states have general criminal laws—such as assault, battery, and reckless endangerment—that can be used to prosecute people for spreading diseases intentionally or recklessly. And if emergency public health orders are in place, prosecutors can charge people with violations of quarantine and other emergency orders.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/is-it-a-crime-to-intentionally-get-someone-sick.html

Criminal transmission of HIV in the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_transmission_of_HIV_in_the_United_States

[spinbaby]

9. Or ignorant people

Every day I’m surprised by what my friends and family are doing while maintaining that they’re “careful.” No, going to a bar with friends is not safe, even if hardly anyone is there. No, a graduation party is not safe, even though all 35 people there are family.

[lame54]

10. Was he armed?