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Schools Rethink Covid Rules. Were Over-Quarantining Kids Like Crazy. © Andrew Spear for The Wall Street Journal Superintendent Jonathan Cooper this summer helped write a fall reopening plan for his southwestern Ohio school district with a rule based on the state’s policy: Any student potentially exposed to Covid-19 in Mason City Schools had to quarantine for two weeks, no exceptions. This fall, he began rethinking it. A growing body of research and data suggested the virus wasn’t spreadin...