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Burroughs Head Start Parents Notified "A Person" At School Has COVID-19, No Mention Of Possible Exposure To Kids



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(Oct. 25, 2020, 5:30 a.m.) -- Parents of students in Burroughs Elementary School's (1260 E. 33rd, Signal Hill) Head Start program are the latest to learn that "we have recently received information about at least one confirmed case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a person on October 20, 2020. This is a general notification to keep you informed and share that all of the safety protocols were in place and a separate exposure notification was given to employees who may have been potentially exposed," say the Oct. 23 letter from Head Start Director LeShell Diggs.

"We are informing you of this circumstance in an abundance of caution and to ask you to closely monitor your health," her letter says .

The Burroughs Head Start program joins Henry Elementary School's (3720 Canehill Ave.) "Kids Club" with a "person" [no details] confirmed with COVID-19 although its Kids Club was not involved.

To date, eight LBUSD locations have notified parents thst their children may have been exposed to the virus. The Burroughs and Henry notices stop short of this; they simply reference "a person" with COVID-19 at the schools.

As previously reported by LBREPORT>com, on Oct. 20 LBUSD notified parents of children that used the Grant Elementary School (1225 E 64th St.) Child Development Center (CDC) that their child "may have been exposed to COVID.-19."

And on Oct. 14, LBUSD's Dooley Day Care (Child Development) Center (5075 LB Blvd.) notified parents/guardians of a COVID-19 positive case from a person within the elementary school and said that in "an abundance of caution," Dooley will close for 14 days, reopening on Oct. 29.

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Previous COVID-19 infections that prompted notifications occurred at Garfield Child Development Center (Sept; 1), Bixby Kids Club (Sept. 18), Webster Child Development Center (Sept. 23), Edison Head Start (Sept. 24), the Jordan Baseball Program (Sept. 28) and Willard Child Development Center

In an Oct. 23 message to parents districtwide (sent in text and video form), LBUSD Superintendent Dr. Jill Baker noted that LBUSD has been offering preschool and childcare services at various loactions ("focusing on students with special needs, beginning with various assessments and therapies") and said the district's "next phase" will include "more in-person instruction for students who have special needs, followed by a plan to begin bringing back young learners."

[Sup't Baker statement] Health data in Los Angeles County will guide the pace at which LBUSD is able to return students to school buildings. When L.A. County moves into the less restrictive red tier, the pace of students’ return to school can increase. Until then, LBUSD can only return students to in-person instruction via a narrowly defined waiver process, and the school district continues to explore this option.

Staff continue to analyze data from the in-person services that are currently provided in LBUSD schools. Since the start of the school year, LBUSD has been providing childcare and preschool to about 1,600 students at Head Start, Kids Club and Child Development Center locations. In the last two weeks, the school district has had to shut down an entire school site (Dooley) and call for students from a preschool classroom at the Grant Child Development Center to quarantine at home due to potential COVID exposure. In light of such recent developments here, and in the spirit of continued transparency, the school district is developing a COVID dashboard that will soon be available on the district website.

As previously reported by LBREPORT.com, the Irvine Unified School District and Los Alamitos Unified School District, which were among the first nearby to reopen for classroom instruction, are now seeing COVID-19 infections among students and staff. For their updated data, see IUSD dashboard here and Los Al.(Los Al district dashboard here.

Dr. Baker said LBUSD "will continue to make instructional adjustments based upon feedback from students, families and staff."
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Socially-networked parents on the Reopen Long Beach Schools Facebook page (roughly 1,900 members) continue to press LBUSD's administration and elected school board to re-open schools for in-classroom instruction. Dispatches on the group's Facebook page frequently note the small percentages of COVID=19 affected staff and students.

A separate Facebook group, Parents for Teachers LBUSD (6,600 members, mainly teachers) stresses the highly contagious nature of the virus, its potential to grow exponentially and urges caution to protect teachers and students (and their families) from becoming infected and passing the virus to others.

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