Have you sign-up for weekly asymptomatic testing at APS

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Anonymous wrote:They should do what Germany is doing where only positive cases quarantine, and they test close contacts daily but don’t require them to quarantine.

guessing APS doesn't care what Germany is doing.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't fully decided whether to opt in on this yet. I would 100% be on board for this if it was across the board required for ALL students or if APS provided live streaming/synchronous material to quarantining students. As it stands, if one child tests positive for covid, they would be home for at least 10 days from either symptom onset or positive test. Then the other child will have to be home for another 8 days (last known contact with their covid+ sibling). 18 days of missed school for a kid who may not ever test positive... and if you have a 3rd or 4th kid? This just seems like an unreasonable burden to put on families without some additional concessions (more than "asynchronous" assignments) to offset it.

That would be true where your kid gets tested via APS or elsewhere.

Unless you plan to send your kids with COVID and/or kid with close exposure to school?

Sure -- but no one would be testing a symptomless kid outside of APS. If kid 1 never develops symptoms, is it reasonable to quarantine kid 2 for additional time if at the end of kid 1's quarantine kid 2 still tests negative? Because that is exactly what will happen. And meanwhile, the untested kid and siblings that spread covid to kid 1 have been in school this whole time.

If kid 1 has covid and has close contact with kid 2, then YES kid 2 should isolate and test. WTAF???

Now I’m understanding why we never got this pandemic under control.

If the testing was required for ALL APS students and APS was providing more than just asynchronous work to the students, I think there would be more buy in. Right now, what I believe will be a minority of families will opt in for the testing and bear all of the burden of missed schooling for asymptomatic infections that would never have otherwise been known. This won't work unless all of the students get tested.

Not happening.

Too many selfish jerks willing to send kids to school WITH COVID rather than do the right thing?

WTF is wrong with these parents?

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't fully decided whether to opt in on this yet. I would 100% be on board for this if it was across the board required for ALL students or if APS provided live streaming/synchronous material to quarantining students. As it stands, if one child tests positive for covid, they would be home for at least 10 days from either symptom onset or positive test. Then the other child will have to be home for another 8 days (last known contact with their covid+ sibling). 18 days of missed school for a kid who may not ever test positive... and if you have a 3rd or 4th kid? This just seems like an unreasonable burden to put on families without some additional concessions (more than "asynchronous" assignments) to offset it.

That would be true where your kid gets tested via APS or elsewhere.

Unless you plan to send your kids with COVID and/or kid with close exposure to school?

Sure -- but no one would be testing a symptomless kid outside of APS. If kid 1 never develops symptoms, is it reasonable to quarantine kid 2 for additional time if at the end of kid 1's quarantine kid 2 still tests negative? Because that is exactly what will happen. And meanwhile, the untested kid and siblings that spread covid to kid 1 have been in school this whole time.

If kid 1 has covid and has close contact with kid 2, then YES kid 2 should isolate and test. WTAF???

Now I’m understanding why we never got this pandemic under control.

If the testing was required for ALL APS students and APS was providing more than just asynchronous work to the students, I think there would be more buy in. Right now, what I believe will be a minority of families will opt in for the testing and bear all of the burden of missed schooling for asymptomatic infections that would never have otherwise been known. This won't work unless all of the students get tested.

Not happening.

Too many selfish jerks willing to send kids to school WITH COVID rather than do the right thing?

WTF is wrong with these parents?

What happened is that APS blew it over the course of the last 1.5 years. Last year's 4-day, reduced hours schedule resulted in a HUGE loss of learning. Asking those families to "do their part" and risk having kids (who may never test positive) home for 2-3 weeks with asynchronous "learning"? I can't blame people for not wanting to sign up for that. The PP who mentioned the German model had it right - quarantine the positive case, and test the contacts. NOT quarantine the contacts for EVEN LONGER than the positive case. APS talks a big game about equity. How is THAT equitable? Los Angeles Unified school district is requiring all in-persons to test. It's not that hard.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't fully decided whether to opt in on this yet. I would 100% be on board for this if it was across the board required for ALL students or if APS provided live streaming/synchronous material to quarantining students. As it stands, if one child tests positive for covid, they would be home for at least 10 days from either symptom onset or positive test. Then the other child will have to be home for another 8 days (last known contact with their covid+ sibling). 18 days of missed school for a kid who may not ever test positive... and if you have a 3rd or 4th kid? This just seems like an unreasonable burden to put on families without some additional concessions (more than "asynchronous" assignments) to offset it.

That would be true where your kid gets tested via APS or elsewhere.

Unless you plan to send your kids with COVID and/or kid with close exposure to school?

Sure -- but no one would be testing a symptomless kid outside of APS. If kid 1 never develops symptoms, is it reasonable to quarantine kid 2 for additional time if at the end of kid 1's quarantine kid 2 still tests negative? Because that is exactly what will happen. And meanwhile, the untested kid and siblings that spread covid to kid 1 have been in school this whole time.

If kid 1 has covid and has close contact with kid 2, then YES kid 2 should isolate and test. WTAF???

Now I’m understanding why we never got this pandemic under control.

If the testing was required for ALL APS students and APS was providing more than just asynchronous work to the students, I think there would be more buy in. Right now, what I believe will be a minority of families will opt in for the testing and bear all of the burden of missed schooling for asymptomatic infections that would never have otherwise been known. This won't work unless all of the students get tested.

Not happening.

Too many selfish jerks willing to send kids to school WITH COVID rather than do the right thing?

WTF is wrong with these parents?

What happened is that APS blew it over the course of the last 1.5 years. Last year's 4-day, reduced hours schedule resulted in a HUGE loss of learning. Asking those families to "do their part" and risk having kids (who may never test positive) home for 2-3 weeks with asynchronous "learning"? I can't blame people for not wanting to sign up for that. The PP who mentioned the German model had it right - quarantine the positive case, and test the contacts. NOT quarantine the contacts for EVEN LONGER than the positive case. APS talks a big game about equity. How is THAT equitable? Los Angeles Unified school district is requiring all in-persons to test. It's not that hard.

So push to shorten quarantines. Don’t forgo testing altogether. WTH?

We ALL want our kids back and learning. Please don’t fck this up by not testing or worse - sending your kid with Covid to school.

Stop blaming APS and take constructive actions to keep our kids in schools. Do the testing FFS.

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And I agree - they should test everyone. Stop pandering to whiney parents who clearly won’t do the right thing.

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Everybody is anonymous here... probably all Russian trolls

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The APS infographic I saw on this says it's self-administered. I think that's fine for older kids and of course teens, but do they really expect kindergarteners or 1st-graders to be able to accurately do their own nasal swab? Am I missing something? Or are they going to do this at drop off or pick up where a parent could administer the test?

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I still need more specifics to make a decision.

When are kids pulled from class and who is doing the testing for little kids? That info is not on the website, at least not yet or that I can find.

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Anonymous wrote:I still need more specifics to make a decision.

When are kids pulled from class and who is doing the testing for little kids? That info is not on the website, at least not yet or that I can find.

They said at lunchtime and I believe they said that only older kids do it themselves. (From the AEM thread)

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Anonymous wrote:I still need more specifics to make a decision.

When are kids pulled from class and who is doing the testing for little kids? That info is not on the website, at least not yet or that I can find.

They said at lunchtime and I believe they said that only older kids do it themselves. (From the AEM thread)

This is terrible protocol. Children need to be tested before they enter the school. At lunchtime, they have had time to become a close contact to many others.

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Anonymous wrote:No way am I signing up for this. If my asymptomatic kid tests positive, all three of his siblings need to miss two+ weeks of school? No way, especially since no one else in their class will have to quarantine.

Oh OK, so it’s fine for them to asymptomatically spread it to an at risk individual? Like my child, or sports coach who has an elderly family member, or to one of your own family members? I’ve never been so sickened by people than in this past year. Pure selfishness. And all so their kids won’t miss two weeks of school.

I agree with you. I am absolutely sick over how selfish so many Americans turned out to be, even as far as deliberately putting our children's lives at risk for their own petty politics or convenience. It's just depressing to realize how little our fellow citizens care about anyone but themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:I still need more specifics to make a decision.

When are kids pulled from class and who is doing the testing for little kids? That info is not on the website, at least not yet or that I can find.

They said at lunchtime and I believe they said that only older kids do it themselves. (From the AEM thread)

This is terrible protocol. Children need to be tested before they enter the school. At lunchtime, they have had time to become a close contact to many others.

I mean come on …. Just one more thing to complain about? It’s better than no testing. It’s free and it’s going to help. The constant nitpicking of decisions is so tiresome. Is testing program incredible step up from last year.

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Anonymous wrote:I still need more specifics to make a decision.

When are kids pulled from class and who is doing the testing for little kids? That info is not on the website, at least not yet or that I can find.

They said at lunchtime and I believe they said that only older kids do it themselves. (From the AEM thread)

This is terrible protocol. Children need to be tested before they enter the school. At lunchtime, they have had time to become a close contact to many others.

It's surveillance testing. It honestly doesn't matter what time of day it happens from a covid perspective.

But I am unsure about opting in because I am someone who has already had the horrible disruption of a FALSE positive rapid test. I would be fine opting into Thursday PCR testing where the results came back Sunday before school on Monday. But I don't want a false positive disrupting our lives because we've done that once and it SUCKED.

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Anonymous wrote:I still need more specifics to make a decision.

When are kids pulled from class and who is doing the testing for little kids? That info is not on the website, at least not yet or that I can find.

They said at lunchtime and I believe they said that only older kids do it themselves. (From the AEM thread)

This is terrible protocol. Children need to be tested before they enter the school. At lunchtime, they have had time to become a close contact to many others.

I mean come on …. Just one more thing to complain about? It’s better than no testing. It’s free and it’s going to help. The constant nitpicking of decisions is so tiresome. Is testing program incredible step up from last year.

+1000, the testing isn't everyday, there will always be some risk.

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Anonymous wrote:I still need more specifics to make a decision.

When are kids pulled from class and who is doing the testing for little kids? That info is not on the website, at least not yet or that I can find.

They said at lunchtime and I believe they said that only older kids do it themselves. (From the AEM thread)

This is terrible protocol. Children need to be tested before they enter the school. At lunchtime, they have had time to become a close contact to many others.

It's surveillance testing. It honestly doesn't matter what time of day it happens from a covid perspective.

But I am unsure about opting in because I am someone who has already had the horrible disruption of a FALSE positive rapid test. I would be fine opting into Thursday PCR testing where the results came back Sunday before school on Monday. But I don't want a false positive disrupting our lives because we've done that once and it SUCKED.

All positive rapid tests are immediately given a PCR test to weed out false positives, so if the first test is in fact a false positive, kid only misses 1-2 days of school