There should be fines for parents that use the schools as daycare and send their children to school while COVID-19 positive. Just like a traffic fine.
Eight children contracted COVID-19 and 75 (click here) were quarantined after a family knowingly sent their infected child to a Marin County school after they were told to keep their children home, officials said Friday.
The parents, who have not been identified, were notified the week of Nov. 8 by the Marin County Health and Human Services Department that one of their two children had tested positive, said Brett Geithman, superintendent of the Larkspur-Corte Madera School District.
Both the siblings are students at Neil Cummins Elementary School in Corte Madera.
The parents were specifically told to keep both children home and to notify the school, Geithman said. Instead, they notified no one and sent their children to school for seven more days, and they did not return multiple calls from public health contact tracers, he said....
