and i am almost certain that at least one person at Paly, student or staff, already has it but has not been tested. "MPCSD's goal is to find a middle ground between shutting everything down and continuing our normal program," Superintendent Erik Burmeister wrote in a message to families and staff on Wednesday.Staff members and a student in the Menlo Park City School District were asked to stay home after learning they may have been exposed to COVID-19.The Ravenswood City School District remains open, though the East Palo Alto district canceled all field trips for March and has suspended nonessential volunteer programs from coming into classrooms. PAUSD is not closing the schools because it would hurt them economically, if they were truly thinking about the health of the students, staff, and the rest of the community, they would have closed the school as soon as a student’s parent was exposed to the coronavirus. "Not every family or parent has the time off or the financial security to stay home from work with their child. Kids read the weird email and think they will get lower grades if they chose to stay home and limit known risk. "As much as possible, children should be allowed to carry on with their education and normal activities. Sports This is a highly critical time to do the hard thing to stave off disaster for all our elders. Many families also rely on schools and staff for basic needs for their children, including regular meals, health care and child care. Hence not "in contact" with them. PARENTS & COMMUNITY
Fractured strange leadership There is an unsteady flow in communication and no communication to kids at school at paly . Not sure why so many people here want to go against the recommendation of her? Dismissal does not equal quarantine. Yes - and iI stayed more than six feet away from all but three of them. They should talk to their counterparts in China about what they just went through. At a press conference Friday afternoon, county Public Health Director Dr. Sara Cody said the case suggests the virus has already been circulating undetected in the region. Subscribe COVID-19 Social Distancing Protocol. If parents can’t afford to take care of their children then they probably ought not be living in one of the most expensive zip codes in the entire country. It just takes a will to do it. Parents should be paying for their own children’s food and health care — not the taxpayer. We cannot practice any type of social distancing -- students are crowded into small secondary classrooms. Those of us who chose to homeschool in the area know the advantages of spending less time in lecture and more time letting students do stuff and learn on their own. "Given the spread of coronavirus in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and the increasing number of local schools pursuing online learning in the face of the virus, Castilleja has decided that closing campus and resuming classes remotely is the best course of action for its students and employees," the private all-girls middle and high school announced on Wednesday.