{"id":52069,"date":"2021-09-30T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/panther-lake-elementary-school-classroom-in-kent-closed-due-to-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-09-30T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T23:09:00","slug":"panther-lake-elementary-school-classroom-in-kent-closed-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/panther-lake-elementary-school-classroom-in-kent-closed-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Panther Lake Elementary School classroom in Kent closed due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

A classroom at Panther Lake Elementary <\/a>School, 10020 SE 216th St.<\/a>, has been closed by the Kent School District<\/a> due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

“As of (Wednesday) Sept. 29 one classroom is closed,” according to the district’s COVID-19 dashboard and school status map. “Otherwise, the building is open and offering in-person instruction to students in the remaining classrooms. The school contacted all impacted families of the closed classroom on Sept. 29.”<\/p>\n

This is the only classroom or school closed at this time. The district closed a classroom at Daniel Elementary and one at Covington Elementary earlier in September, the first closures since school began Aug. 26.<\/p>\n

Classrooms are typically closed for about 14 days, according to the district. Remote learning is set up for the students within a couple of days after the closure.<\/p>\n

The district considers closure of a classroom after consultation with Public Health — Seattle & King County<\/p>\n

and will be considered when:<\/p>\n

• Two or more students or staff in the same room\/area test positive for COVID-19<\/p>\n

• The cases have symptoms that start within 14 days of each other<\/p>\n

• The cases are not associated with one another in another setting (household, club, etc.)<\/p>\n

A COVID-19 outbreak in a school is considered when the following have been met:<\/p>\n

• There are two or more COVID-19 cases among students or staff<\/p>\n

• The cases have a symptom onset or positive test result within a 14-day period of each other<\/p>\n

• The cases are epidemiologically linked<\/p>\n

• The cases do not share a household<\/p>\n

• The cases are not identified as close contacts of each other in another setting during the investigation<\/p>\n

At this time, individual case counts for students and staff by school are not being posted by the district, only classroom and school level closures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Third classroom closure in district since school began Aug. 26 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":52070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-52069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52069"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=52069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}