Data Report

Just a Masked Man side-note long-winded commentary if I may:

I can't help but note that the lack of disclosure of what particular illness is going on and  the numbers involved is alarming and disturbing. It indicates a lack of responsibility to the general public to not disclose at least that information.

They don't have to disclose personal names just names of illness. It just seems the public deserves to know what the illness is or what the illnesses are and what is at stake here.

Its not a big school but people who have had contact or close encounters with people there that come down with symptoms should be able to say to their doctors I might have contracted such and such disease rather than not having a clue as to what illness they might have contracted.

..or maybe the schools don't even know themselves which seems like a sort of incompetence not to have things in place at school to determine  considering how burnt we've all gotten by these diseases the last five years and since covid and flare up of several diseases. Schools should have things in place or better communication system to determine and therefore be able to announce the particular illnesses they are spreading to nearby communities and their contacts considering our experience with the pandemic thus far. Its just a lack of intelligence not to be able to report at least what they are mostly suffering from while receiving attention from local news. Maybe it is too soon to tell but at least they are cancelling school and admitting they are sick.

I'm just hoping this isn't a new trend where schools like many performing artists and musicians aren't disclosing what they know about the contagious illness they have and are possibly spreading. Can this school at least tell us what twenty percent of the staff and student's symptoms are if they can't give us any info of the actual illness. Twenty percent is a lot..can they give us a diagnosis of what five percent of the twenty percent of illnesses are? 

Perhaps there will be a follow up report of this in the nearby future as to what they are all suffering with... at least twenty percent of them. I'd like to see some effort on their part. There's about 182 students there ..20 percent of that is aproximentally 36. So out of 36 students and some teachers not a single one reports back to school saying my doctor says I got such and such? Or here's a school with 182 kids and no nurses or doctors that can even relay any source of info between students and their Md's to report anything to the general public when at least 36 of them inform us they feel sick? Gimmie a break that's a a whole classroom of kids surely they can tell us what the majority of illness is? That's 36 kids and teachers that keep extensive papers and grades on one another..How can we not know their illness as well as we know their grades?

Anyway to be fair lets do a time frame here and analyze the situation and see what options students and teachers are given under the circumstances many of them get mysteriously sick with an as of yet undetermined illness or disease:
Okay, they found out they were sick on Monday and that they had to cancel Tuesday so its Tuesday evening and so coworkers and staff should surely know what a majority of their peers have in terms of sickness by now. After all tomorrow is Wednesday and I imagine school resumes? You see this is weird They close one day and clean the rooms on that day and then teachers and students return Wednesday and what was the illness? Do the teachers and students know before they return to school tomorrow morning what illness, disease or malady their peers had on Monday and is that privy to the public? How do ya find these things out? Some students and teachers might not want to go back to school right away depending on the illness or diseases involved. Some might think oh just a flu I'll go to school and risk that.. or it might be covid and some students might think why risk a disease like long covid!? maybe I'll try to work or do schoolwork from home and play hooky and avoid a diseases with long term repercussions! It would be nice to know what sort of options insofar as working or studying from home are given to students and teachers when 20 percent of them get sick with either an illness or disease which is as of yet to be announced.

From my point of view to be fair to students and teachers I really think schools need to be flexible and offer stay at home options to both their teachers and students such as online  collaboration. Schools must be flexible because they are prone and hit by outbreaks and schools just have to do something different from when I was in school in pre pandemic days.

I just don't believe kids and teachers should have to feel pressured to attend school in person and risk diseases in order to stay in school and still get an education. In my opinion Nowadays facing the challenges we do (like Covid)There just have to be stay at home and study/teach options for those of us who refuse to risk a disease for an education.

Think of it this way a day ago 20 percent of the people next to you in a classroom were sick..you leave for a day and a janitor I guess cleans the room real good then your asked to come back to school in a classroom and learn about this and that and who knows if the people next to you are sick or just coming down with being sick and who knows if its covid or whooping cough... that's just a big thing to make a little kid or teacher face.

Please excuse my speculation on the matter but the schools leave me with such little information that speculation is all I have left to make. Schools clearly have to upgrade, change policies, and revolutionize in response to the pandemic just like airports have changed since 9/11 terrerost threats. No one should fear the threat of a disease or risk a disease for the sake of an eduction.

I merely use this one school to open up these questions as to what have schools done in the form of reform or changing their procedures and practices since the pandemic began especially since we now have a different set of tools to determine illnesses and diseases such as test kits and wastewater tests, etc. that we previously have not had in pre pandemic era and in previous times? Schools hold the key to education for the masses and schools have taken in and take care of the vast majority of children and youth for many hours a day schooling them all under the same roof and facilities so my questions as to what do schools have in place to continue in these modern times when there are outbreaks are good ones with the people's and the public's best interest in mind.

I'd like to add in my hopefully little thought provoking commentary that I am not targeting this school as an example for it may very well be that this particular school in this news story is actually doing something like cancelling the school for illness while many other schools may not even be doing that or being as responsible as this greater Cincinnati school. I ask these questions and made the aforementioned comments in this reply to all schools in general. How have things changed for schools since the pandemic? Are there new things in place since times have changed and we have become more understanding of viruses? Are schools becoming more pandemic wary and pandemic savvy and are they safer to attend than yesterday?