'This is stressful': More than 100 Arizona classrooms quarantine over COVID-19 in 12 districts

Tucson parent Abbie Hlavacek says she has spent much of November in overlapping COVID-19 quarantines for two of her three children. Her middle child was exposed in early November, tested negative and spent most of the month in quarantine. A week after he entered quarantine, she found out her kindergartener had been exposed the week before.

“This is stressful,” said Hlavacek, whose three children attend Marana Unified School District.

While all of her children were vaccinated this fall, the ongoing exposures have kept her from feeling the expected comfort.

“Shockingly, I’m not feeling that relief yet,” she said.

At Marana Unified, eight classrooms at one school closed in mid-November, bringing the total number of quarantined classes this school year to 25.