School systems across the country are reporting some of the highest numbers of positive COVID cases since the pandemic began.
The day after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, a fifth-grade student in Chicago teacher Lauren Walsh’s class took an in-school COVID test. The results did not come in until Friday — and the student tested positive., these sorts of delays are common. Waiting for notifications from the district’s contact tracers can take even longer.
Walsh says the onus to urge students to sign up has fallen largely on teachers. Teachers can volunteer to reach out to parents and guardians after school — reading a script aloud, obtaining consent and then registering the student for testing. “At first they didn’t want to tell us that we were supposed to be getting paid to do that,” she says.
“Right now, there are barriers for families to register the actual test on their mobile device or online,” she says. In order for a student to know their test results, they need to set up an account through the Color Health website, which ties the test to them. Curiel says some families are getting error messages or can’t access the website in the language they need. “So, if you go pick up a test to take, you can swirl it in your nose and follow all the rules and drop it off,” she says.
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