6 confirmed coronavirus cases in Arab City Schools

6 confirmed coronavirus cases in Arab City Schools

Superintendent johnny berry told me anytime there's a case confirmed in an arab city school - students and their families are notified of any possible exposure.

But he said he did not want to specify which schools in the district - those 6 cases came from and he explained why.

Ohnny berry, arab city schools superintendent: "we are a small district and so when you start narrowing it down and going all the way down to the school, in a small town like this, people are going to know, so we want to respect our people's privacy.

Our student's privacy as well as our adult's privacy.

We don't try to have any secrets with anything, but again for their privacy, we just release our district numbers.

That was something we decided a while back."

Superintendent johnny berry told me once a positive case is identfied - the lead nurse is notified along with himself and the assistant superindendent.

Then the lead nurse notifies those who had close contact with the person who tested positive - including students and their parents.

Johnny berry, arab city schools superintendent: "we get with the principals and we find out where those close contacts have been and then we start notifying those people."

Berry believes the school district has done a good job containing cases in a district of about 3 thousand students faculty and staff.

Johnny berry, arab city schools superintendent: "those that we have, we mitigate, we make sure people know.

We have our dates that we set up.

We have a spread sheet that we keep up with that a few of us have access to and we're constantly monitoring that spread sheet.

We have our dates in there of when students can return, we faculty can return."

Berry told me the school district is still following all of their sanitation and social distancing protocols as well as having all students wear a mask.

Live in arab - sophia borrelli waay 31 news.