A young student tested positive for coronavirus only hours after a school in Indiana reopened.
Hours after Greenfield Central Junior High School reopened on July 30, many students were sent home after one of them tested positive for the virus.
In the US, the question of reopening schools has been an ongoing debate as many raise concerns about children’s health.
The county health department informed the school about the student who tested positive for Covid-19, and the school was forced to send anyone who had been in contact with the child home.
According to the New York Times, the students sent home have to quarantine for 14 days.
“We knew it was a when, not an if,” said Harold Olin, superintendent of the Greenfield-Central Community School Corporation. However, they were shocked that it occurred on the first day.
Other schools that were also planning to reopen have decided to conduct classes online. Even the largest public-school districts of California, San Diego and Los Angeles, boycotted the initial plan to have a partial physical return to schools.
There are also complaints about the idea of young students having to wear face masks in class.
Michael Rebresh, the organizer of the Million Unmasked March in Illinois, said: “This is a free country. If I don’t want to live in Illinois, I can move but no state owns my child. I’m not an indentured servant to the state. They don’t get to tell me what to do.”
Rebresh continued: “I’m teaching my children that no, you’re not going to die from COVID-19. You might get sick. Everybody might get sick, but there’s a 99.6% recovery rate with this virus.”
In a radio interview, Missouri Governor Mike Parson said: “These kids have got to get back to school – they’re at the lowest risk possible, and if they do get COVID-19, which they will, and they will when they go to school, they’re not going to the hospitals. They’re not going to have to sit in doctors offices – they’re going to go home and get over it and most of it all proves out to be that way.”
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