Monongalia County school district officials spent most of Tuesday sorting through another spate of COVID cases that impacted students and staffers across five schools.
“We were busy,” Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said, as he readied for that evening’s Board of Education meeting.
At University High School, the positive diagnoses of three students put another 45 classmates into quarantine, the superintendent reported.
None of the UHS cases were related, however, so the incident won’t be considered an outbreak.
Five students and two staffers from Skyview Elementary are quarantining today, after a student there tested positive, he said.
No quarantines were required following the positive diagnosis of a Westwood Middle student, Campbell continued.
Contact tracing put 14 classmates at Suncrest Middle into isolation a student’s test for the coronavirus came back positive.
No such action was necessary at Mylan Park Elementary after a student presented with a positive diagnosis.
This most recent spate of cases comes after the district just completed a round of Pfizer vaccines for students 16 and older, along with their family members.
The district finished out last week with positive cases among five students and three district employees – along with 104 students and six staffers quarantining for safety after also coming into contact with the virus.
“This shows how important vaccines are,” the superintendent said before the meeting. “We encourage everyone to get the shot.”
COVID or no, he said, the schools are still marching onward to summer.
“We’re still dealing with positive cases pretty much on a daily basis,” he said.
But that’s in a district that also saw its varsity athletes turn in respectable showing in state high school basketball and wrestling tournaments, he said.
A district, he said, that is looking forward to graduation for its three public high schools next month while also sending Clay-Battelle forth to its socially distanced prom Saturday in Fairmont.
In other matters, BOE members tentatively set Oct. 16 as election date for the excess levy and reappointed Nicole Kemper as board treasurer.
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