Cononavirus Cases at Bob Jones High School in Madison

Cononavirus Cases at Bob Jones High School in Madison

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It's another friday night under the lights for high school football players and fans across north alabama.

You're taking a live look at guntersville high school where it's a battle of the un-beatens tonight - between the madison county tigers and the guntersville wildcats.

The coronavirus is keeping several teams off the field tonight - including florence high school.

The district said 3 varsity players tested positive for the virus.

The school is forfeiting its game against brentwood academy tonight - and next week's game against james clemens.

Tonight -- the entire football team is quarantined.

They'll be able to return to school on october 5th.

New information... tonight -- there are 30 new coronavirus cases in madison city schools.

That includes 20 students and 2 employee at bob jones high school.

We also know 44 additional bob jones students and employees are in quarantine.

Last week the district reported nine bob jones football players tested positive -- sending more than 100 people into quarantine.

One mother told waay 31's max cohan - she thinks the district's lack of communication could have put her kids at risk!

She says now - parents have taken matters into their own hands.

"i would think that children's lives come before football and i'm just not seeing that."

Tiffany smith is the mother of a football player at bob jones high school.

He is among those who've recently tested positive for coronavirus.

She said she first heard about the team's positive cases through an app the coach uses to communicate with parents -- but soon noticed that those messages were being deleted after they were posted.

She says the coach told her it was because they violated hippa laws.

"had i not saw that before he deleted it, we would have never tested."

"smith says some parents got frustrated with the district's lack of communication and created a private facebook group to discuss matters themselves."

"we have to share our own information, we have to figure it out ourself.

I feel like we're leading the blind and this isn't how it should be ran."

With two children with rare gene mutations at home -- smith says she's upset the school has not provided more information about these cases and claims they've made no effort to contact trace.

Smith said she reached out to the school to try to get an update on the numbers but was told quote "the numbers don't matter."

The district announced wednesday that bob jones students will not return to campus until at least october 12th due to the number of quarantined staff members.

Reporting in madison, max cohan, waay 31 news."

We've asked district officials about tiffany smith's concerns.

The district said in part -- communications from the schools are sent to the proper school communities on a timely basis.

The district is reporting a school-by-school roundup each week of new positive cases and the number of quarantined employees