Parent knowingly took child with COVID to school

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The school district for Marce Herz Middle School in the Reno area of northern Nevada says
80 people were exposed to the coronavirus as a result of a parent knowingly sending the child to school two days after learning the student had tested positive for COVID-19.

The Washoe County School District said in a statement Wednesday that
the parent with the “presumably-infectious child also tested positive and “refused to communicate with the school.” No identities were released.

Some students were sent home to quarantine but the district did not specify how many were. Those kept from school are expected to participate in home-learning and keep up with the school work, the district said.

Unvaccinated students sent home may return to school if they take a COVID-19 test after five days of quarantine and test negative and are free of symptoms, the district said. Fully vaccinated students may return to school if they are free of symptoms and bring their vaccination record for validation by a school nurse, the district said.

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-education-coronavirus-pandemic-reno-8691d8f16ca6c8211e36a7c0034ba7a5

[GPV]

1. Doesn't surprise me.

[MagickMuffin]

2. And there you have it the willful ignorant leading the way

I don't care seems to be their mindset.


If my child was infected I'd want to bring charges against this parent.

[SweetieD]

3. As schools open up this will be a frequent occurrence. Most people use school as a free babysitter.

Nt

[oregonjen]

17. As a former preschool teacher, I can agree with that

Parents would often load their kids up with Tylenol or Advil and send them to school. Over the many years, I have had so many viruses thanks to the germ factory that preschools are.

[TheFarseer]

4. That's why you don't get them tested

When will people learn? I’m mostly kidding.

[niyad]

5. Can those idiots be sued by those affected? I think hitting their wallets might be

the only thing they might understand.

[Wingus Dingus]

6. Release identities. Why protect this asshole?

[maxsolomon]

11. Minor involved.

No charges.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Jail time

This parent should be sent to jail.

[JoanofArgh]

8. This will be happening all over the US.

Even in blue states. It’ll be worse in red states , though , for sure.

[mopinko]

9. we've got to start vaxxing kids.

got.to.

[Nanjeanne]

10. Like knowingly infecting someone with AIDS, these parents should be held

criminally responsible. In Nevada that’s 2-10 years in prison and fines up to $10,000.

DO IT.

[UpInArms]

12. Thank you LOC

This story is why we can’t have nice things …

[Sancho]

13. Absolutely to be expected in every school in the US...

The Washoe County School District said in a statement Wednesday that
the parent with the “presumably-infectious child also tested positive and “refused to communicate with the school.” No identities were released.

...any long-term teacher knows that kids will come to school with parents (and guardians) knowing the kids are sick.

Sometimes, the parent doesn't care or is stupid, but sometimes sending the kid to school makes sense (to them). Believe me - I've seen kids living with parents who are awful (drug dealers, abusive, etc.), and kids whose only meal is the school breakfast/lunch, and kids with parents who are working and simply cannot take time off to care for the kid.

One time I had a middle school student who was sick, and the school could not contact the single parent. The social worker discovered that the parent was working on-the-road in another state, while the middle schooler was taking care of two younger siblings. BTW, a review did NOT take the kids away from the parent, and was happy the parent was employed.

Some parents who are not documented refuse to go to a clinic or doctor for fear they will be discovered and deported, so they send the sick kid to school hoping a school nurse will help out. Teachers are sometimes the first to discover serious illness and disease in kids. A low-income kid may be legally born in the US, and qualify for Medicaid, but the illegal parents won't/don't apply. It can be a mess getting a kid to see a doctor without a parent, but those parents won't answer the phone.

Here in Florida our typical school has about 25% of the parents born out of the US. You can easily hear 3-4 languages, and not just Spanish, but Vietnamese, Arabic, Polish, Croatian, or Haitian French. Much of the public information from the school about Covid is unreadable to those parents anyway. The fact that a parent doesn't communicate is common also.

Schools reflect very complex issues, and each situation requires individual attention.

[JustAnotherGen]

15. Thank you for this insight

And understanding. And - your empathy for the children in these situations.

[krawhitham]

14. charge parent with attempted murder

[liberal_mama]

16. This happens all the time. Before Covid, parents would send their kids to school sick

Kids would have the flu, norovirus, bad colds, lice, and the parents would send them to school throwing up. I had to homeschool my youngest before Covid because he had asthma and catching any virus was a trigger, even a mild cold. I tried to send him to kindergarten and he missed half the year, so I just gave up and pulled him out.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

18. How sick is that

Kick these people out of your school.

That parent is wearing this like a badge of honor among the Q/repub crew.

No remorse

[tanyev]

19. This is why TX Gov. Yeahbut's plan to rely on "personal responsibility" is ludicrous.