A California school district reopened in-person learning. In two days, 81 students were quarantined.
Only seven cases were reported across four different schools.
But out of an abundance of caution, 81 elementary and middle school students at Escondido Union School District in San Diego County have been quarantined — along with 11 staff members — only two days after the district re-opened for hybrid, in-person learning, KNSD in San Diego first reported. (Four other district maintenance workers were quarantined after a separate case.) They will be quarantining for 10 days.
The school district had measures in place to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, such as temperature checks, mandatory mask wearing, distanced desks and air-filtration systems in classrooms. The hybrid model also meant that there were only 12 students maximum, per classroom, split up into two separate cohorts. Students only attend school in either four half-days or two full days.
To be clear, the cases were not transmitted at school, a district representative confirmed to SFGATE. Still, for educators, it ended up being frustrating proof that reopening may not be "sustainable."
"The numbers since live teaching and learning resumed this week are, unfortunately, not overly encouraging, and we must always remember that numbers represent real people," Romero Maratea, president of the district's elementary teachers union, told KNSD.
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