Ga. School District Quarantines Hundreds Of Students Over Fears Of COVID-19 Exposure

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Georgia Schools Quarantine Hundreds Of Students After Possible Coronavirus Exposure

A photo posted to Twitter last week of a largely maskless crowd at North Paulding High School in Dallas, Ga., sparked a discussion about just how safe reopened Georgia schools really are.A photo posted to Twitter last week of a largely maskless crowd at North Paulding High School in Dallas, Ga., sparked a discussion about just how safe reopened Georgia schools really are.

"We are not hesitating to quarantine students and staff who have had possible exposure – even if the positive test was prompted by possible exposure rather than symptoms, as all positive cases can lead to the infection of others," Hightower said. He said Etowah High School would be closed to in-person learning effective at the end of classes on Tuesday. At the end of Monday, about 300 of the school's 2,400 students, or 12.5%, were under quarantine, according to

The superintendent's statement came a day after Gov. Brian Kemp said at a news conference that the reopening of the schools had gone well.

 

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shaunking 187 influenza associated pediatric deaths during 2019-2020 so far. When were students, teachers and staff ordered to self-quarantine over the flu? Were schools shutdown due to flu deaths? 7 weeks away from the start of another flu season.

I tweeted before that Trump & bunch claimed children were immune. So that are using these schools to test theory. Children have been reduced to lab rats under Trump & GOP administration.

Shut it down! Hs is stupid anyways

drsuebryza So scary! I go back on September 8th.

Gee, that’s such a surprise.

How's the 'open schools now, kids are immune' stuff coming along? THIS is what happens when you have incompetent leadership that denies science.

Teachers should be paid to sit home and nothing 😜

Figured this would happen in Covid Central.

binghamtonu Tulane IndianaUniv

Idiots. I mean, obvi public education needs to get better in Georgia, but maybe start with the adults in charge. Like briankempga

shaunking SMH. Insane. Absolutely no way I would even begin to consider placing my kids back in school in an environment like this. I don't give a rip who says go back to the school building. What more of a sign do you need?

Well done, well done.

Colleges and universities will be fine though.

shaunking

But ....wait.....

That’s just a shock, like, no one could have seen that coming

Now do an honest analysis of the virus spreading amongst protesters.

And they want to play college football? Lol

shaunking

Too bad there were no warnings

NO ONE could have predicted this would happen. No one.

Well duh

Well realDonaldTrump this is off to a bad start!!! Once again....you FAILED!!! TrumpVirus

Masks not required should have been in the first sentence of this tweet.

It’s too bad they were forced to make the right decision after proving how wrong the bad decision was, but at least they’re doing the right thing now. Oh, and KimReynoldsIA, this is exactly why all your plans totally suck.

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I hope their families will be quarantined also.

Gee...I wonder who could’ve seen this coming ?

😔🙏

Is anyone surprised by these numbers? It will be interesting to see how the numbers change over time.

Hmmm...never saw that coming

NYGovCuomo nyuniversity

MuellerSheWrote ...and the student who snapped this photo, suspended.

BrianKempGA Good job genius

But tHe gUrl wAs sUspeNdEd 🤮 this school leadership should be ashamed. She’s probably a hero. Based on no actual plan for their reopen, I’m sure this could have gone on for days if not for her.

WhichWichKing cc: __bc2020

Crazy parents who want this spread far and wide in the community! Why would they applaud NOT requiring masks AND in person? 90 American children died so far. There's no way to guarantee the next one won't be your kid.

Actually, this is pretty tragic Never mind the numbers These people, children, teachers and staff, that may be infected with a serious illness, that can cause long term complications, and the ONLY reason that they are facing this is because the Governor wants to please Trump 😡

Shocking development

This is such a cluster f*ck! Masks must be mandatory. Period!!

Kemp for President 2024!

Shocking

Welp.

You dont say

shaunking And where are they going to have to quarantine? At home! They are kids. They don't have their own places. So now, they risk making other family members sick too.

RufusKings1776 I’m like... soooo.... surprised!!

Who could’ve predicted that?

What were people were expecting! It was obvious!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE AUTHORITIES?

GovRonDeSantis and richardcorcoran -smart people learn from other’s mistakes

shaunking fordnation Sflecce ...pay attention.

shaunking It was SO STUPID to send kids back to school just because the calendar said it was time! What did they THINK was going to happen?!! They could have postponed the start for at least 3 months; the kids could have made that up by going to school in the summer months of next year!

In today’s edition of “The Most Inevitable Thing Ever”...

Wow who could have guessed this would happen 😑🤦🏻‍♀️

Malpractice but really should be criminal.

Never predicted this happening!

realDonaldTrump

You guys should see their board of ed meeting! They suggested students should switch seats every 14 min 😂 The chair of their BOE said he considers the CDC recommendations bunch of crap.

shaunking It has a 10 day incubation period so . . .

Our educators should have push back on this a lot harder. The kids may be fine, but the parents teachers and others the kids come in contact with won’t be. We should have used the bailout money spent on big corps to help those that can’t WFH.

Sadly, this was never about economics or instruction. How many days of learning will be lost when teachers and students across the country have to quarantine? Pushing students into unsafe conditions is a political experiment only. Quality virtual instruction would prevent this.

kmoto312

Absolutely nothing to see here huh GovKemp ?

JonathanLanday .TheRealGresh ooops Can't wait to find out about your little NASCAR experiment.

Do stupid things, win stupid prizes

I hope BrianKempGA feels some remorse for their suffering. He basically used these kids as a political chit for whatever crumbs realDonaldTrump will throw him after they both lose the next election.

Is that the same school that suspended the students who took and shared the pictures of crowded hallways?

This doesn't seem to be bringing any consistency or normalcy to these teachers, students, or families. Just go 100% virtual already, we have failed, we had all summer, we failed to contain this pandemic.

Well I, for one, am shocked by this development. 🧐

Duh

How many hospitalized or dead?

'Hey everyone, it's softball-size hailing out there. Let's go do some yardwork.'

These are not bright people. Sorry for being harsh, but...no, I’m not sorry.

Second stupid governor who said face masks were not mandated in schools. I've lost track. Who is stupider? Kemp or DeSantis.

😡

WAH WAHHH WAHHHHHHHHHHH

MuellerSheWrote Why are the schools still open?

Holy shit you mean a communicable virus was spread in a building full of people during a pandemic?! Egads Bazzel, whatever shall we do?!

Why do kids go back to school so early down south? I never went back until after Labor Day. My youngest doesn’t even know if she will be going back for her senior year bc of Covid, but I don’t understand why kids are back in school in August. It’s supposed to be summer break!

Schoolchoice!

“The superintendent's statement came a day after Gov. Brian Kemp said at a news conference that the reopening of the schools had gone well.” If this is what “gone well” looks like, I’d hate to hear what constitutes a fuck up.

Governor Kemp said everything went well for the first week back. Seriously...

MuellerSheWrote

Meanwhile, 🦗🦗🦗from the Governor's Mansion.

This is hard proof why we can NOT have in-class OR hybrid teaching, and stick ONLY to virtual, online classes.

I have been a teacher 25 years. All I needed to see was ONE upset GA teenager’s cell phone pic to predict this. Who are these decision & policy makers & what sort of data are they looking at or informed by? Can you get some names, faces & data, ? Send inskeep

But hey, let's play football.

Lmao but y’all don’t listen

Governor Kemp has a lot of explaining to do. What was the rationale to this blatant assault against the schools? Nothing compared to the potential life long health problems, death, or infecting family and people at risk? Nothing but partisan politics.

Did they think about staggered release to avoid over crowded halls?

Wow, it's almost like science is real.

Who could have seen this... [Everyone that believes in science and logic]

It would be LOL if it weren't so terrible and predictable. BrianKempGA doesn't care about the health and safety of Georgians.

Congratulations, good job Georgia!!

It is Georgia. lol

Good. Herd immunity here we come

How long after exposure till symptoms are detectable? Was this an effort to find any excuse for bad news?

Ridiculous overreaction. Those kids are more likely to die from flu, or be struck by lightning, committ suicide, or be murdered, then to die from Covid19.

If only there was some way to predict this ...

Never be proactive, only reactive.

Doh.

The governor of Georgia is as incompetent as the ringmaster of the Whitehouse circus.

wow who could have known crazy

wow it's almost like this was gonna happen!

Aren’t Elected Republicans easily demonstrating to their constituents, that they are totally stupid and unconcerned about children and the elderly?

No masks, no distancing, no effort to contain the virus - sorry, are we supposed to be surprised?

So that’s going well I guess

The student who exposed this ought to get a medal. As always in the Trump era, it's the womenfolk who stand the tallest while the menfolk shrink and shirk.

Covid was framed by the AMA as dangerous, to cover their corruption by Big Pharma, Big Sugar, Big Ag - that has resulted in a fat, ugly, pre-diabetic nation or worse. Y'see : vitamin D -absent high insulin- can take out a Covid URI, anytime. Boycott doctors.

MattLorenzo

Hate to say I told you so but....

this is so shocking because schools are safe to open

I wish there was some way we could have foreseen this lol oh wait

This is exactly why I just opted my kids out of in-person and into 100% virtual learning.

Surprise

What low IQ person thought that was going to work?

Wow, go figure.

DOUBLE DEFICIT DONALDS KID IS HOMESCHOOLING BUT TRUMP WANTS YOUR KID TO DIE

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