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kramberger: pearson parents can keep track of covid cases at their child’s school

meanwhile, as quebec continues to stumble on air quality in classrooms, pearson commissioners have tackled the issue by ordering about $146,000 worth of replacement hepa filters.

by albert kramberger

feb 3 2022
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although parents have to be more proactive, at least the lester b. pearson school board is collecting and posting information about covid-19 cases.

previously, the school board sent automated emails to parents — based on government protocols that have changed since the fall of 2020 — reporting new cases at their children’s schools.
for the past two weeks, pearson parents have being asked about any covid connections related to absences. information is collected and updated daily at 4 p.m. on the board’s mozaïk portal, which is used for everything from accessing report cards to registering for the next school year. tallies include students who are absent for either a positive rapid test, covid-19 symptoms or a household isolation situation.
once they log on to their child’s mozaïk account and enter the resources section, parents can check for reported covid cases by grade level. for instance, there were 48 cases on tuesday at john rennie high school in pointe-claire, which has around 1,300 students in grades 7 through 11. board-wide, there is an absentee rate of about four per cent.
lester b. pearson school board parents are now able to log in to their mozaïk portal accounts for a summary of covid-related absences at their child’s school. this tool is called covid case reporting and can be found in the resources section of the account.
lester b. pearson school board parents are now able to log in to their mozaïk portal accounts for a summary of covid-related absences at their child’s school. this tool is called covid case reporting and can be found in the resources section of the account. lbpsb
although not all parents will see the need to check daily counts, at least pearson took this initiative to make sure the data is available.
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speaking of initiative, unlike the province when it comes to improving air quality at schools, pearson commissioners tackled the issue on monday by ordering about $146,000 worth of replacement hepa filters.

this follows the $500,000 worth of higher-end filters for schools with mechanical ventilation systems and about 420 wall-mounted air purifiers for classrooms that have only natural ventilation (open windows and doors) purchased by the dorval-headquartered anglophone school board in fall 2020 to combat the airborne coronavirus.

two pre-filters on the air purifiers are being replaced every few months on top of the more costly annual hepa filter, noted pearson assistant director general carol heffernan.
mechanical ventilation systems are a more efficient way of bringing in fresh air, particularly during the winter, as opposed to leaving windows open, heffernan noted, adding the board needs authorization — and funding — from the education ministry to do those building upgrades.
as part of previous renovation projects, the pearson board has upgraded some older school buildings, mainly at the elementary level, with mechanical ventilation systems. quebec needs to table a detailed plan and a dedicated financial allotment to make sure every public school has its ventilation system upgraded within the coming year or two to quell the spread of any airborne virus, whether that’s covid-19 or the standard flu. while that seems to be a common-sense objective, the legault government has also flip-flopped on mandatory mask-wearing in classrooms since the start of the pandemic, which is nearing the two-year mark.
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albert kramberger is editor of the montreal gazette¹s west island/off-island section.
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