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Superintendents: Reporting COVID-19 Cases To Parents Is Not A Problem

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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Thursday that

Most administrators across the state find the order to be 鈥渞easonable,鈥 Kevin Miller, director of government relations for the , told ideastream Friday.

鈥淢y bet would be that many school districts, if not most all of the school districts already had plans in place and were already starting to implement them as far as keeping the parents informed,鈥 Miller said. 

Most Ohio schools already have communication mechanisms in place to notify parents of things like snow days, so adding coronavirus alerts to email or text blasts shouldn鈥檛 be a problem, he said. 

That鈥檚 true of , where Superintendent Joe Clark said he鈥檇 already been planning to send e-mails to parents and staff in the event someone at the school is diagnosed with the coronavirus. 

鈥淭his is something that we had planned on doing anyway so it鈥檚 really, for us, kind of common sense,鈥 he said. 鈥淧arents want to know, families want to know and it makes it a lot easier to be proactive with the communication than to just let the rumor mill spread on social media.鈥 

In fact, Clark sent his first email to employees Friday, regarding a staff member who tested positive for the coronavirus.

Clark is also president of the Akron Area School Superintendents鈥 Association, where he said the question of how to notify parents has been a hot topic lately. Most superintendents, he said, are prepared to notify parents and local health departments 鈥 but also want to maintain people鈥檚 privacy.

Clark also said he is looking forward to hearing more details from the governor on the reporting requirements.