Reply #24: Depends on how the emergency response / Public Health plans

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Your right that the schools don't have the authority to enforce a quarantine; however, they could release the names and addresses of the students to the health department which does have that authority -- and could get the local PD or national guard to enforce it.

There are people in the US today essentially imprisoned because they have untreatable extremely drug resistant TB. If the state health departments / CDC want you quarantined, they have the authority to do it.