Mother of kindergartener with COVID-19 calls for more transparency in case reporting

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Charter schools are not included successful Duval County schoolhouse district’s online COVID-19 lawsuit dashboard

The regular COVID-19 dashboard for the Flagler County Schools volition beryllium discontinued, officials said connected Friday.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – COVID-19 cases among the bulk of Duval County Public Schools students and unit are reported online done the schoolhouse district’s dashboard, but charter schools are not included. Now, immoderate parents are calling for much transparency.

One of those parents is Sherry Mohamed, whose daughter, Gabby, started kindergarten astatine the Seacoast Charter Academy connected Aug. 10.

On Thursday, she said, she learned different pupil successful the aforesaid people tested affirmative for COVID-19, but she was not notified by the school. The adjacent day, her girl started not feeling well.

“She conscionable had a stuffy chemoreceptor and a truly atrocious cough, and past connected Friday, she was complaining astir her receptor hurting,” Mohamed said.

Mother says 5-year-old tests affirmative for COVID-19 aft starting kindergarten

Mohamed said she took her girl to the doc and the 5-year-old tested affirmative for COVID-19.

“When I recovered out, I was conscionable shocked,” Mohamed said.

But the household told News4Jax that they are much shocked astir however the schoolhouse territory is handling the pandemic. Students and unit aren’t required to deterioration masks astatine Seacoast Charter Academy, and Mohamed said galore don’t.

“I consciousness similar they’re not protecting her. I deliberation masks should beryllium mandated. They should beryllium doing testing. This happening is bad, and it’s sidesplitting radical each day,” said Melody Forman, the 5-year-old’s grandmother. “It’s retired there. It’s a illness retired there, and it’s dangerous, and we don’t privation our kid to upwind up astatine the infirmary connected a ventilator.”

The household said administrators are not notifying parents astir cases crossed the school.

Right now, COVID-19 cases among students and unit astatine charter schools are besides not listed connected the DCPS online dashboard. When News4Jax asked the territory wherefore past September, it said it was due to the fact that of “incompatible information systems.” DCPS went connected to say: “Charter schools are escaped to bash immoderate is successful the champion involvement of their schoolhouse communities with respect to sharing interaction data.”

News4Jax reached retired to the Seacoast Charter Academy. The schoolhouse responded, saying it follows Centers for Disease Control and Prevention protocol and that the main would get backmost to us.