MEDICAL LAKE — It’s one thing to be one of 200-plus school districts in the state to be relative observers in the daily COVID-19 reality show.

But when it hits home like it did in Medical Lake where a teacher tested positive for the virus, it presents a completely different response.

Medical Lake Superintendent of Schools, Tim Ames got word on Saturday, March 14 that a staff member at Hallett Elementary — and an advisor with the Circuit Breakers robotics club — had indeed tested positive.

The district, however, had the virus on its radar prior and were prepared to take measures to...