Massachusetts high schooler with coronavirus goes to school despite testing positive

A high schooler in Attleboro, Mass., went to school just days after testing positive for coronavirus, frustrating school and community leaders who worked for months to ensure safe in-person classes.

Attleboro Mayor Paul Theroux said the student was tested Sept. 9 and received a positive result two days later. Despite that, the student's parents still sent him or her to Attleboro High School for in-person classes Sept. 14.

Theroux said "bizarre is an understatement" for the situation.

"We've been in this for six months, and we're all in it together," Theroux said of the pandemic. "It's just an egregious violation of the rules to have done that. People by now know what the right thing to do is, as well as what the wrong thing to do is."

The school found out about the positive test Monday after the student already had attended school. Five ot... (Read more)

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