A Covid-19 optimistic pupil attended class on Monday, however the faculty wasn’t notified of their prognosis till the subsequent day, Attleboro Excessive Faculty superintendent David Sawyer mentioned in a letter despatched out to households Tuesday night time. Twenty-eight college students who had shut contact with the contaminated particular person have been notified and requested to quarantine for 14 days, Sawyer mentioned.
The college didn’t determine the scholar and household.
Attleboro Mayor Paul Heroux and the superintendent have been baffled by the incident, the mayor instructed CNN. The dad and mom instructed the town well being division that whereas they came upon their baby examined optimistic on September 11, they thought that the kid might go to high school after quarantining for a number of days, based on Heroux.
“The dad and mom used very poor judgment, it’s extremely irritating,” Heroux mentioned. “The college division did the whole lot they have been purported to do.”
Sawyer instructed households that the incident was not on account of an absence of security protocol. He mentioned the district’s prescreening and call tracing are in place to assist cut back the unfold of coronavirus, however in the end there isn’t any strategy to fully forestall the unfold at college.
In a plea to folks, Heroux requested households to maintain their kids residence in the event that they examined optimistic or are ready for check outcomes for coronavirus, and to name the varsity or well being division if they’ve questions.