Parents knowingly send COVID-positive child to class, forcing 75 NorCal students into quarantine
By Tim Johns
Sunday, December 5, 2021 3:19PM
CORTE MADERA, Calif. -- It was a Thanksgiving break unlike any other for dozens of families at a school in Northern California this year.
Around 75 students at Neil Cummins Elementary School had to quarantine after parents of one student at the school knowingly sent their child to class after they had tested positive for COVID-19.
Dr. Brett Geithman is the district's superintendent.
He says school officials only found out about the positive case after getting a call from Marin Public Health asking why the student's infection hadn't been uploaded to the school database.
"We learned that that student was never reported to us, and that that student had been attending school for the last seven days," Geithman said.
Following the discovery, Geithman says the school took immediate action.
"Parents received a text message the night of the 18th to then bring their child to the gym so that we could conduct testing before anyone entered the classroom," he said.
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