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Weare superintendent, administrators cover for staff members after COVID-19 clusters

Other schools plan to begin testing programs

Weare superintendent, administrators cover for staff members after COVID-19 clusters

Other schools plan to begin testing programs

WITH OTHER ADMINISTRORATS ARE COVERING FOR SCHOOL STAFFERS WHO TESTED POSITIVE. THLEE TTER FROM DR. JACQUELINE COE CITES TWO DIFFERENT COVID CLUSTERS AT CENT WEROODS SCHOOL IN WEARE, WHERE AT LEAST TEN PEOPLE WERE COVID POSITIVE WHILE IN THE BUILDING LAST WEE "VERY FEW PEOPLE IN THE WEARE SCHOOL DISTRICT ARE WEARING MASKS IN THE BUILDING, EVEN THOUGH MANY INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED THAT THEY ARE CONFIRMED CLOSE CONTACTS. BASED ON OUR PLAN AND MANDATES FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, WE HAVE NO INTEIONT TO SHIFT TO REMOTE LEARNING." BEDFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT IS JUST EMERGING FROM A COVID OUTBREAK AT MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. >> WE D HAWHAT WAS CONSIDEREAND OUTBREAK AT MEMORIAL, SO WE MASKED UP FOR 14 DAYS. Y:AM OFFICIALS SAY TARGETED MASKING IS A MITIGATION STRATEGY THAT IS WORKING. SOON ASYMPTOMATIC TESTING WILL BE AVAILABLE IN BEDFORD SCHOOLS. STARTING WITH STAFF MEMBERS. >> ONCE WE DO THAT WE LLWI OPEN IT UTOP OTHER GROUPS. SPORTS TEAMS MIGHT WANT TO DO THIS, GRADE LEVELS, CLASSROOMS. Y:AM SUPERINTENDENT FOURNIER SAYS FEDERAL FUNDING WILL COVER THE EXPENSE AND STUDENTL W NEED PARENTAL CONSENT. ED ACKNOWLEDGES COVID FATIGUISE SETTING IN. ESPECIALLY SURROUNDING WHAT HE CALLS MASK WARS. >> THAT’S THE THING THAT IS REALLY DISTRACTING FROM TEACNGHI KIDS IS CONSTANTLY TALKING ABOUT MASKS WHEN YOU REALLY WANT TO BE TALKING ABOUT READINANG D WRITING AND MATH. AMY: SUPERINTENDENT FOURNIER SAYS WHEN A STUDENT TESTS POSITIVE THEY ASK THE FAMILY IF , THEY HAVE BEEN VACCINAD.TE AND HE SAYS MOST BUT NOT ALL OF
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Weare superintendent, administrators cover for staff members after COVID-19 clusters

Other schools plan to begin testing programs

Administrators in one New Hampshire school district are covering for school staff members who contracted COVID-19 from classroom exposures.Weare Superintendent Jacqueline Coe and other administrators were staffing classrooms Monday because of COVID-19 infections among staff members, district officials said.In a letter, Coe cited two clusters at Center Woods School, where at least 10 people were COVID-positive while in the building last week. "At this point, very few people in the Weare School District are wearing masks in the building, even though many individuals have been notified that they are confirmed close contacts," Coe said in a letter. "Based on our plan and mandates from the Department of Education, we have no intention to shift to remote learning." The Bedford School District is just emerging from a COVID-19 outbreak at Memorial Elementary School."We had what was considered an outbreak, so we masked up for 14 days," said Superintendent Mike Fournier.Officials said targeted masking is a mitigation strategy that's working. Asymptomatic testing soon will be available in Bedford schools, starting with staff members. "Once we do that, we will open it up to other groups," Fournier said. "So, sports teams, grade levels, classrooms."Fournier said federal funding will cover the expenses, and students will need parental consent. He acknowledged that COVID-19 fatigue is setting in, especially surrounding what he calls "mask wars.""That's the thing that is really distracting from teaching kids, is to be constantly talking about masks when you really want to be talking about reading and writing and math," Fournier said.Fournier said when a student tests positive, school staffers ask the family if they have been vaccinated. He said most, but not all, of the cases are in unvaccinated students.

Administrators in one New Hampshire school district are covering for school staff members who contracted COVID-19 from classroom exposures.

Weare Superintendent Jacqueline Coe and other administrators were staffing classrooms Monday because of COVID-19 infections among staff members, district officials said.

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In a letter, Coe cited two clusters at Center Woods School, where at least 10 people were COVID-positive while in the building last week.

"At this point, very few people in the Weare School District are wearing masks in the building, even though many individuals have been notified that they are confirmed close contacts," Coe said in a letter. "Based on our plan and mandates from the Department of Education, we have no intention to shift to remote learning."

The Bedford School District is just emerging from a COVID-19 outbreak at Memorial Elementary School.

"We had what was considered an outbreak, so we masked up for 14 days," said Superintendent Mike Fournier.

Officials said targeted masking is a mitigation strategy that's working. Asymptomatic testing soon will be available in Bedford schools, starting with staff members.

"Once we do that, we will open it up to other groups," Fournier said. "So, sports teams, grade levels, classrooms."

Fournier said federal funding will cover the expenses, and students will need parental consent. He acknowledged that COVID-19 fatigue is setting in, especially surrounding what he calls "mask wars."

"That's the thing that is really distracting from teaching kids, is to be constantly talking about masks when you really want to be talking about reading and writing and math," Fournier said.

Fournier said when a student tests positive, school staffers ask the family if they have been vaccinated. He said most, but not all, of the cases are in unvaccinated students.