Framingham Schools go full remote

I've tried to stay out commenting on the school covid crisis, but today in the MWDN, Bob Tremblay at the last school committee meeting was quoted in the paper. And it comes as no surprise to me or anyone who has seen the news over the Thanksgiving holiday on how many people ignored the CDC advice to not travel home for the holiday. When this pandemic first hit our shores, a company traced the movements of college students through their cell phones who went on spring break and it was horrifying to see. Now, since the self absorbed, selfish, ignorant people who traveled have caused our schools to go full remote. 

IMO, people of any age and especially parents who send their kids to school knowing the kids have symptoms should be fined heavily and their kids not allowed back in school until they test negative. 

As far as the Skate Park restrictions go, the fence should stay and sand be filled in. It is a form of child abuse to allow your children to engage in activities that threaten not only their lives, their older family member's, but the entire community. 

We will never get through the next 6 months without more proactive enforcement of public health mandates.

"There are two schools where we saw in-school spread," Tremblay told the Daily News on Friday. "In both cases, there was COVID in their households. Whether they came to school knowingly with COVID, I don't know, but they definitely came to school with COVID and their contacts became positive."

Tremblay said contact tracing efforts found that the contacts had no other exposure to COVID-19 other than in the schools.

"It is clear that the Thanksgiving holiday and negligent behavior have resulted in the dramatic increase in transmission of cases in our city that demands immediate, preventative action," Tremblay wrote in an email to staff. "In order to reduce the spread of the virus and to ensure that we are ready to broaden the opening of our schools and activities in January, we need to adjust our operations yet again."