JACKSON (WNE) — Someone at Wilson Elementary School tested positive for COVID-19 in the first week of September, triggering the quarantine of an entire second-grade class.

Given that the coronavirus pandemic is still active in Teton County, a case in the schools was perhaps unavoidable. It certainly was an eventuality administrators had been planning for.

“We had protocols in place, and our protocols worked,” said Charlotte Reynolds, district communications director. “We got the information we needed to be able to communicate to families within a really short period of time.”

On Sept. 14, Wilson Principal Scott McDowell sent an email to parents explaining that the district had learned of the positive case over the weekend. Because of the prior week’s four-day schedule, the last time the class was together had been Sept. 3, so the 14-day quarantine started the following day.

That means the affected kids were back in the classroom Monday, since the final day of the quarantine was a Friday, when students aren’t physically in school.

During quarantine, kids aren’t getting a two-week vacation; instead, they have switched to full-time virtual learning.