PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A parent of two students at Park Slope's P.S. 107 tested positive for coronavirus but the school remains open despite an outcry from families.

Those anxious families rang phones at the school off the hook Thursday, demanding to know why administrators hadn't yet closed the school. But the school's PTA President Amy Weintraub kept telling them that administrators' hands are tied because it was a parent — not that parent's two children who have been out of school since Tuesday — who tested positive for COVID-19. They haven't received words on coronavirus test results for the children, she said

Only the city's Department of Education and Chancellor Richard A. Carranza can make the call to close the school at this point, Weintraub said. "I personally am calling on the chancellor to make the right decision and close the school at least until we know what the test results for those kids," she said. "It doesn't make sense to still have school until we know what's going on."



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The parent received the positive coronavirus diagnosis this week. That's after they attended a family night on March 6 at the school, Weintraub said.

This story previously stated the parent attended another school event over the weekend, but Weintraub said she has since learned that appears to be inaccurate.

The Eighth Avenue school's custodial staff have disinfected the building as much as possible since the parent's diagnosis this week, Weintraub said.

"Of course our custodial staff is cleaning, cleaning, cleaning," she said.

But that's not enough for Weintraub and other parents. A parent who wanted to be unnamed said she plans to keep her fourth grader out of school for the foreseeable future.