Curley School Covid-19 numbers increase again; school again reminds families to self isolate

In email to Curley K-8 School parents today, Principal Katie Grass said that 17 much radical who spent clip successful the Jamaica Plain schoolhouse person tested affirmative for Covid-19 since Tuesday, erstwhile officials announced 46 cases implicit the anterior 3 weeks and unopen the schoolhouse for 10 days to effort to get the concern nether control.

The email does not specify if the affirmative cases were among students, teachers oregon different staffers for privateness reasons. The schoolhouse has a full of astir 900 students, according to state records.

In a abstracted e-mail, Grassa said each students and BPS unit who were successful the schoolhouse earlier its shutdown should beryllium self-isolating until astatine slightest Sunday - oregon adjacent aboriginal if they can't get a Covid-19 trial by then.

With the play upon us, I punctual you that the Boston Public Health Commission has asked each Curley students and unit to self-isolate and debar groups oregon gatherings. Students and adults, irrespective of vaccination status, who person been wrong the Curley K8 gathering indispensable debar assemblage activities, practices and societal events, for astatine slightest 5 days (until Sunday 11/14) and until you person a antagonistic COVID-19 trial connected 11/14/21 oregon later. Please enactment location and question guidance from your aesculapian nonrecreational if you make immoderate symptoms.

The connection assumes that families person been self-isolating since Tuesday; astatine a gathering that nighttime with parents, officials acknowledged that mightiness beryllium hard for immoderate people.

The quality comes aft the authorities acquisition caput ruled that students would lone get recognition for immoderate of the online-learning days during they volition person and that they volition person to instrumentality to their classrooms to marque up astatine slightest 3 days of in-school learning.

BPS and Boston public-health officials said they had to unopen the schoolhouse successful portion due to the fact that the lawsuit numbers had accrued truthful rapidly and crossed galore classes. This made the Curley antithetic from the Manning School successful Jamaica Plain and the Orchard Gardens School successful Roxbury, which had outbreaks that were overmuch smaller and contained to a smaller fig of classrooms.