Kids With COVID Symptoms Can't be Quarantined Without Parental Consent

In August 2020, as states and school districts have been grappling with how best to open their doors in the fall in order to allow the nations’ children’s education to have continuity, rumors have been circulating on social media that schools have the ability to quarantine children for COVID symptoms without consent of their parents. Versions of the same claim have circulated in the UK, Australia, Canada, and Ireland.