Mississippi Town Ends First Week Of School With 116 Kids In Quarantine

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Schools in Corinth, Mississippi opened last week. But already, 116 students are in quarantine after students and staff tested positive for coronavirus.

after first one student, and then six students and a staff member, tested positive for the coronavirus.

A strong contender for the “What Did You Think Was Going To Happen” award, Corinth didn’t even make it one week before there was a positive coronavirus test in a school: A high schooler who tested positive on Friday. And now, with five more positive cases and over a hundred kids missing classes because they’ve been forced into quarantine after being exposed, district officials are basically like, “This is fine, everything’s fine.

“Just because you begin to have positive cases, that is not a reason for closing school,” Superintendent Lee Childress said in aWhat’s really wild is that Corinth is far from the only place in the U.S. where these kinds of issues are happening, and yet, some cities and states are still going full steam ahead with reopening schools right now.

 

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Anyone surprised that packing hundreds of kids into classrooms without PPE or a plan during a pandemic ends up badly?

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