We average two staff cases per day and up to 15 student cases a day.
We have about 9,000 students in our district, and since school started we’ve had five schools shut down. Or they’ll refuse to let the child come home, and we have to call the police to escort them home, which is such a waste of resources. We had one parent where if you mentioned COVID they just cut you off and say, I’m not going to talk about that. They know that they’re sick, and they will downright lie. The number-one thing we’ve had lately is that parents are just sending kids to school sick. “We had a school board meeting pretty recently and the parents called us child abusers for having our kids wear masks.” - Jennifer, district nurse, New Mexico Interviews have been edited for length and clarity, and names have been changed. The Cut spoke with five of them about sick children, 24/7 contact tracing, and the COVID conspiracy theorists that “are sacrificing our kids.” Almost entirely responsible for contact tracing and quarantine placement as well as their regular jobs, they’ve found themselves at the nexus of this crisis. School nurses have borne the brunt of these outbreaks. Even student and staff deaths have not convinced some areas to impose safety measures. Despite this, at least eight states - including Florida and South Carolina - have moved to ban mask mandates, and mass COVID outbreaks in schools around the country have forced them to close. But now, infections are nearing all-time highs, and students - especially those under 12 who remain unvaccinated - are at even more risk of getting sick thanks to the super-contagious Delta variant.
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Now they’re on the frontlines, trying to keep students safe as school districts insist on full reopenings, a decision the CDC began pushing in the spring when case numbers were low and vaccines made normal seem within reach. But comparatively little has been said about how school nurses are handling the return to classrooms.
The toll the pandemic has taken on parents, teachers, and health-care workers has been well documented.
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