Days after photos of packed hallways go viral, Paulding high school reports 9 COVID-19 cases

[brooklynite]

Source: WSB News

PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. — Just days after a photo of crowded hallways at North Paulding High School went viral, parents were informed Saturday of 9 confirmed cases of coroanvirus at the school.

Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Nicole Carr got a copy of the letter. Principal Gabe Carmona wrote that six students and three staff members who were in school last week have since reported positive tests for COVID-19.

The school district has not announced if students who were exposed will have to quarantine and have not given any notice about shutting down classrooms.

Read more: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/paulding-county/days-after-photos-packed-hallways-go-viral-paulding-school-reports-9-covid-19-cases/X3FEDBYQ3FEA3F3TX5MMQD6E3Y/

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Didn't see THAT coming...

[Botany]

1. Georgia student suspended after posting a photo of a crowded school hallway

In a letter to the community, Superintendent Brian Otott said the photo was taken out of context, writing: "Class changes at the high school level are a challenge when maintaining a specific schedule. It is an area we are continuing to work on in this new environment to find practicable ways to further limit students from congregating. Students are in this hallway environment for just a brief period as they move to their next class. ... There is no question that the photo does not look good. ... Wearing a mask is a personal choice, and there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them."

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[SamKnause]

3. The suspension was overturned.

She has given interviews on MSNBC and CNN.

[llashram]

9. BS!!!

Just mandate for students. Hell, there's no running in the hall, no fighting. Signs everywhere., masks save lives. Want to be an adult, wear masks. It's a matter of doing it or die

[madaboutharry]

10. When I was in high school they enforced

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rules about clothing everyday. You got sent home to change if the words on your tee shirt violated the dress code.

This principal is full of shit.

Wearing a mask is not a personal choice.

[Ahpook]

21. Yes sir

I got sent home or had to turn my shirts inside out numerous times.

A few of us sold weed to the WHOLE damn football team who were the biggest buyers.

[H2O Man]

23. DU should send

hundreds of e-mails to this superintendent and to the school board.

[Jillgirl]

33. Wearing clothes is a personal choice.

I don't think any high school kid could get away without wearing clothes. That's enforceable. Why not masks?

[louis-t]

37. Wearing a mask is a personal choice?

This is why we can't have anything nice.

[Botany]

41. Here is another "personal choice"

[groundloop]

2. Thank Superintendent Brian Otott for not requiring masks

Dr. Brian Otott, Superintendent
[e-mail]
770-443-8000

Mask wearing is a personal choice, and it takes over 15 minutes of close contact to spread the virus, he said.

There were students that were forced into those crowded halls because they got put on a waitlist for online learning.

What a horrible person to be in charge of Paulding County Schools.

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Im sure a girl wearing short shorts would be sent home immediately and they can't enforce masks...

BullShit!!!

[Phoenix61]

6. Exactly! If they can make a student cover their

bellybutton they can sure as hell make them cover their mouth and nose.

[OhNo-Really]

15. Short shorts ☺️ Haven't heard that in years.

Things sure have changed. 🤷🏻?♀️

[AlexSFCA]

14. 15 min CUMULATIVE contact with any covid positive person

does not have to be the same person. Hundreds of students in school? 15 min is easy.

[AZ8theist]

20. Even now that may not be accurate..

Some evidence has shown the airborne virus may remain up to 2 hours in some cases.
We just don't have all of the facts surrounding the infection mechanism yet.

Some fucking school principal thinks he's a virologist now?

Good luck sending your kids to his school system....

[H2O Man]

24. Thank you!

[w0nderer]

31. for a confirmed infected person...

Go visit him
without a mask
stay for 14 minutes and 59 seconds from enter room to leave room

feel free to sneeze cough and clear throat


see no problems there
*rolls eyes*

sarcasm bell should be pinging hard reading this

[Stuart G]

40. Brian Otott will soon be out of a job. He is as stupid as Trump. Maybe stupider??

[BigmanPigman]

4. The publicity from this will impact other school openings

around the country. Make an example of the school board and whomever made the final decision about opening. I hope they get flooded with negative publicity. The student who took that photo should get an apology and an award for having courage and strength to stand up for what's safe for all students.

[Phoenix61]

7. I hope the Young Dems there reach out to her.

that’s the type of bravery we need to encourage, promote, and support.

[crickets]

13. I hope they get lawsuits for child endangerment.

This entire idiocy around opening schools is criminally reckless and they all know that deep down.

[regnaD kciN]

25. Doubt it...

They'll probably just say "It is what it is."

Seriously, if you think the Re-Open Brigade is going to reverse course because of nine cases, you're dreaming. They didn't go into this thinking that forcing people back into "normalcy" wasn't going to have any effect. They knew full well that re-opening would lead to more cases; they just think that people need to accept them as a "normal" part of life in 2020 and forge on anyway. Nine cases? I doubt they'd reverse course if there were ninety cases, or even ninety deaths.

[BigmanPigman]

28. If they ignore it now they won't be able to in two months.

This is the tip of the iceberg and in two months (right around election time...good) they will be seeing lots of schools opening and closing on a continual basis. That will cost the idiotic school boards tons of money that they and the govt don't have.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. This is EXACTLY their mentality

That Python crew knew exactly this type of human nature.

[Johnny2X2X]

11. This is just so sad

It’s been 6 months of the same people telling lies about Covid-19 and yet people still listen to them. And now kids are getting sick because of it.

[PatSeg]

12. Gee, who could have possibly seen that coming?

What on earth will it take to get through to some of these people?

[James48]

16. Nine today test positive?

I bet by the end of next week, another 90 at least do so.

It can take a week for sypmtons to develop for most people - imagine that those who already showed symptoms, AnD got tested, AND got their results back, AND called and told the school - are just a fraction of one day’s case spread. Give it a week or two, and the whole damn school will test positive.

I am so sorry for the loss of those who will die because it these stupid decisions.

[Orrex]

19. Right?

I spent part of today arguing with an asshole on FB who wants schools to reopen and all scholastic sports to resume immediately.

He simply denies the reality that kids will become sick, and that some of them will die, and that some of them will sicken members of their family who will then die.

I asked him which of his two kids he's willing to sacrifice, and he openly threatened me with bodily harm. Somehow FB didn't remove that post, but a few months back when I suggested that someone likes to fuck squirrels, I got thrown in FB jail for a week.

[SunSeeker]

17. This will happen in all our high schools.

I have a 16 year old whose first day of his high school's fall semester is Aug. 31, and it will be in-person. I'm dreading it.

[Jillgirl]

32. Keep your child home.

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I understand that it won't be easy to keep the child home. But his or her life is on the line.

A 16-year-old can be home without babysitting. You can set up a program of home study. Try to find other kids from the same school who are signed up for the same courses and see if the kids can get together (online, of course) to study. You may even find parents to teach at least part of the time.

For guidance, search "homeschooling," "homeschooling organizations," and "homeschool curriculums" on the Internet. Each state has standards for every course. I'm no expert, but I've searched out enough of them to have an idea how to find them. If you want to talk about that, PM me.

Do you have time to jump through all the legal homeschooling hoops? If not, do it anyway. This is too important.

Edited to add some stuff.

[reACTIONary]

34. Keep her home, it tell everyone ...

... you are doing it. Give the newspaper a call and let them do an interview.

[Mr. Evil]

18. Bullshit!

"Wearing a mask is a personal choice, and there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them."

But, if you catch a student smoking a cigarette, you're going to punish them, right? If you catch 2 students having sex, you're going to punish them, right? What a fucking load.

Make an announcement over the PA and tell them what the fuck is going on! No mask, no pass! Instant F! There's your fucking mandate you stupid fucking idiot!

[H2O Man]

22. Recommended.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

26. No announcement of quarantines for exposed students...

... either?

That superintendent is a menace to society!

[truthisfreedom]

27. 9 in one school? It will explode from there.

Expect it to hit 50 within the week.

[iluvtennis]

29. And these 9 cases are the ones who took the initiative to be tested. More kids/teachers/staff

testing positive is coming in the next 7 to 14 days.

Start online learning now and send the kids/teachers/staff home to safety from CV-19.

[Hav]

30. Yes, who could have foreseen this...it came out of nowhere

Partially, I also have to blame the parents and students for them not wearing masks because it seems the vast majority didn't. Didn't the parents care for the well-being of their kids? But long indoor activities were doomed from the start.
It's almost inevitable that at least some students will go through the trauma of having killed their teachers, parents or siblings.

Opening schools that fast during a pandemic in a state with rising case numbers was madness from the beginning. What happens to the students who will be put under quarantine eventually? They'll miss 2+ weeks and will probably have to make up much of the lost material at home anyways. Or is quarantine a personal choice as well?

[japple]

35. Don't blame the school system. Blame the governor. It is his decision that masks

cannot be required and that the schools had to open. The school systems cannot mandate that their students wear masks when the governor and their parents say otherwise.

[This Donald is a Dem]

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[HotTeaBag]

42. Good one.

Welcome to DU !!

[louis-t]

38. There is a consensus among deplorables that we should just

let the virus "wash over the country" as the dumbass in charge has said. They are truly a death cult.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

39. I wonder how many students they have?

[AC_Mem]

43. Anybody who has kids knows

how fast a virus, the flu, or lice spread throughout elementary and middle schools especially. And we haven't even discussed pre-k. We get notifications of epidemics at the schools on a regular basis. This is not going to go well and I pray to the Creator that we don't start seeing thousands of children become critically ill.