PALMETTO, Fla. (WFLA) – Classrooms full of students were sent home from Palmetto High School after a teacher tested positive for COVID-19.
Manatee County School Board member Dr. Scott Hopes tells News Channel 8 that the teacher tested positive for COVID-19 before the school year started and that teacher had lunch with a second teacher.
According to the school board member, neither teacher followed social distancing guidelines.
Hopes says that the second teacher teaches six classes and all of those classes were all sent home as precautions.
According to a Manatee County Schools spokesperson, students on quarantine should be able to return to school as early as Sept. 10, as long as they are not exhibiting any COVID-19 related symptoms or awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test.
The school has now issued new social distance mandates including making sure seating charts are produced in each classroom so that the Department of Health can do a more proficient job of contact tracing when necessary.
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