The mother of a third grade Millard Public Schools student has questions and concerns after getting a phone call Tuesday saying her daughter had been in contact with a person who had tested positive for COVID-19 and would have to stay home.
The call came just as the new school year began. "She’s fine. She has an appetite, she’s playing. She’s not sick,” Penny Stange told 6 News. She says it was hard telling her daughter that she would have to stay home from Cather Elementary.
Days can go by before someone knows they are positive. The district tells 6 News they only learned of the case the day Stange was notified.
The district goes through a three-step notification process. It informs those who have had direct contact with someone who tested positive. Then the class, if it was a case within the classroom and then the community is notified.
A district spokesperson says parents and the community are given as much information as possible while protecting the privacy of the person who tested positive.
Stange believed it was best for her daughter to learn in-school but now her feelings have changed.
“If this is going to happen, they should go to remote learning,” she says.
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