Parents are concerned about school's attempts to protect privacy is impacting their ability to protect their loved ones from COVID-19.

Principals are forbidden to share COVID-19 cases in the schools with the public.

Parent of two Matthew Verge became concerned when he learned one of his children’s close friends contracted COVID-19 but no one from the school let his family know.

“We not only didn’t receive a notification that there was a case,” said Verge. “We didn’t receive a notification that we wouldn’t be receiving notifications.”

Verge says the school community is tight and parents do a good job of informing each other what is happening in classes but argues it shouldn’t be up to parents to contact each other about a potentially serious illness.

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