FWCS: Social media video about ‘COVID room’ at Waynedale Elementary ‘false’ - WANE

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Fort Wayne Community Schools has disputed a video circulating on social media in which a woman claims there is an isolated “COVID room” at Waynedale Elementary school in which students with symptoms are quarantined and monitored with a baby monitor.

In the video, Amanda Tokos addresses the “extremely disturbing” room in Waynedale Elementary where students who are showing symptoms of COVID-19 are placed in quarantine. The room, Tokos alleged, is separate from other areas of the school, with no windows. Waynedale Elementary does not have air conditioning.

The children are placed in the room and left unsupervised, Tokos alleges in the video. The school has a baby monitor in the room, she claimed.

“These children are sick – apparently – and if they’re sick, who is watching them to ensure that they’re not choking on something or convulsing or going into a seizure?” Tokos says in the video. “All these children together, by themselves with no adult, for how long?”

Tokos says in the video that school staff can hear the children “crying” and they’re not allowed to go in the room.

The “dangerous children” are then put on a bus, around other children, to go home at the end of the day, Tokos says in the video.

“I don’t know who all knows what’s going on at this school. I don’t know who’s responsible for this. Clearly someone made the decision to put these kids in these rooms. I think it’s barbaric. I think it’s unbelievably irresponsible to not put an adult...



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