If your school tested everyone, and shared the percent positive, what is it and what are they doing?

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Anonymous wrote:Langley is only testing via PCR every other week, which is insane. No additional mitigation. I miss our old HOS.

Langley tests older grades weekly and just set up a covid dashboard that outlines the number of active cases school wide as well as by division and grade. Michele Claeys has made amazing improvements in just a short time in middle school. She’s been very responsive to parents (adjusted the schedule to increase frequency of core classes which is a major undertaking once the school year has started, improved the HS outplacement process, hired strong new teachers, created the positions of assistant division heads—things are running much more smoothly than last year). I would just ask if the frequency of testing for younger kids can be increased during this peak time. Don’t assume they will say no. Langley has handled covid incredibly well for the duration of the pandemic and is responsive to parents.

Langley covid policy has been a joke. You either work for the school or have addt'l incentives to spin this. There are many cases where the "administration" is relenting to certain parent pressure to keep kids and making up close contact policy eeven though there are clear cases of covid in the classroom. Many parents with active covid cases have sent their kids to school because the previous test was "negative".

Yeah, their close contact policy is a joke. And I know I’m not in the minority who thinks that.

Nope I don’t work there. Have a kid in middle and feel like the covid safety has been strong, minimized within community spread, and resulted in mostly in-person school which is the goal.

Yeah, it worked well with a handful of cases last year and the early part of this year, truly. But with 40+ cases this week, they gotta step it up a notch.

Another Langley parent here. We have actually been very happy with the covid protocols. Covid changes quickly and I have been happy to see how quickly Langley has adjusted. Testing every other week in the lower school was reasonable when there were so few cases - in fact, I hoped they would stop that testing for vaccinated students. But, then omicron came and Langley has to adopt again. They expanded testing to the Primary school (did you hear the number of 3 year olds crying hysterically?) and implemented a tracking dashboard. What else do you want from them? If you've got ideas, you should tell them.

What else do I want? I want them to be like Stone Ridge and NCS where a n95 or double surgical mask is required. My MS child is quarantined right now bc of close contact. I doubt a cloth mask was doing much to prevent transmission.

Your kid wouldn't be quarantined if they were vaccinated. Full stop. Take ownership of your own kid if you are so worried.

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Anonymous wrote:Langley is only testing via PCR every other week, which is insane. No additional mitigation. I miss our old HOS.

Langley tests older grades weekly and just set up a covid dashboard that outlines the number of active cases school wide as well as by division and grade. Michele Claeys has made amazing improvements in just a short time in middle school. She’s been very responsive to parents (adjusted the schedule to increase frequency of core classes which is a major undertaking once the school year has started, improved the HS outplacement process, hired strong new teachers, created the positions of assistant division heads—things are running much more smoothly than last year). I would just ask if the frequency of testing for younger kids can be increased during this peak time. Don’t assume they will say no. Langley has handled covid incredibly well for the duration of the pandemic and is responsive to parents.

Langley covid policy has been a joke. You either work for the school or have addt'l incentives to spin this. There are many cases where the "administration" is relenting to certain parent pressure to keep kids and making up close contact policy eeven though there are clear cases of covid in the classroom. Many parents with active covid cases have sent their kids to school because the previous test was "negative".

- sincerely signed the parent that uses vaccination status as an excuse to put others at risk
Yeah, their close contact policy is a joke. And I know I’m not in the minority who thinks that.

Nope I don’t work there. Have a kid in middle and feel like the covid safety has been strong, minimized within community spread, and resulted in mostly in-person school which is the goal.

Yeah, it worked well with a handful of cases last year and the early part of this year, truly. But with 40+ cases this week, they gotta step it up a notch.

Another Langley parent here. We have actually been very happy with the covid protocols. Covid changes quickly and I have been happy to see how quickly Langley has adjusted. Testing every other week in the lower school was reasonable when there were so few cases - in fact, I hoped they would stop that testing for vaccinated students. But, then omicron came and Langley has to adopt again. They expanded testing to the Primary school (did you hear the number of 3 year olds crying hysterically?) and implemented a tracking dashboard. What else do you want from them? If you've got ideas, you should tell them.

What else do I want? I want them to be like Stone Ridge and NCS where a n95 or double surgical mask is required. My MS child is quarantined right now bc of close contact. I doubt a cloth mask was doing much to prevent transmission.

Your kid wouldn't be quarantined if they were vaccinated. Full stop. Take ownership of your own kid if you are so worried.

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Anonymous wrote:It's honestly depressing that so many on this thread are clueless about the potential threat of this illness. If you actually follow postings of doctors/scientists/epidemiologists- NOT politicians, government agencies, and Facebook groups with agendas- long COVID is very real and is affecting a significant swath of young and middle-aged vaccinated people. (Examples: Eric Feigl-Ding, Peter Hotez, Scott Gottlieb....)This is NOT the flu. Yes, vaccines and boosters help a lot, but they aren't sufficient! And we can't even get the country to cooperate fully on the vaccination/booster front! And, yes, the data changes as we learn more and as the viruses evolve, so mitigations must evolve too...

Data tracking, testing, and communication is shockingly poor for a country with our wealth and tech sophistication. We have had two inept administration responses to this. The CDC and others made a major messaging error to classify anyone not hospitalized or dead as experiencing a "mild" version of covid. Covid is an illness that, after minimal acute (mild) symptoms have occurred, blood clots can form 4-6 weeks later. There is a long list of symptoms for long covid symptoms/conditions that include neurological and organ damage. Who wants to sign up for that? There is also evidence to suggest that the illness may accelerate early onset dementia and a scary list of other chronic autoimmune illnesses.

I agree that we must send our kids to school. But let's please live in reality. This virus is dangerous. We need to push our schools to install appropriate HVAC mitigation, require use of kn95 or n95 masks, and buy some damn tents and heaters for kids to eat outside when community spread is out of control (like now). I can promise you that several Asian countries are benefitting from their (albeit uncomfortably authoritarian to America's ethos) approach and will have a comparative economic and health advantage coming out of the pandemic. We are literally crippling and killing ourselves at this point with our arrogance, ignorance, and tribal politics.

I totally get this. I know someone who works with ICU COVID patients and this virus is no joke. I just was told that with Omicron, they are seeing heart issues more than any other variant. My sister had COVID last year and is still having serious memory issues. I had a sinus infection and couldn't get a doctors appointment anywhere because everyone is sick right now. The issue is, God forbid something non COVID related happen and you have to go to the ER, you are in trouble. You will be risking getting COVID on top of what you are already dealing with IF you can even get a bed.

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Anonymous wrote:Langley is only testing via PCR every other week, which is insane. No additional mitigation. I miss our old HOS.

Langley tests older grades weekly and just set up a covid dashboard that outlines the number of active cases school wide as well as by division and grade. Michele Claeys has made amazing improvements in just a short time in middle school. She’s been very responsive to parents (adjusted the schedule to increase frequency of core classes which is a major undertaking once the school year has started, improved the HS outplacement process, hired strong new teachers, created the positions of assistant division heads—things are running much more smoothly than last year). I would just ask if the frequency of testing for younger kids can be increased during this peak time. Don’t assume they will say no. Langley has handled covid incredibly well for the duration of the pandemic and is responsive to parents.

Langley covid policy has been a joke. You either work for the school or have addt'l incentives to spin this. There are many cases where the "administration" is relenting to certain parent pressure to keep kids and making up close contact policy eeven though there are clear cases of covid in the classroom. Many parents with active covid cases have sent their kids to school because the previous test was "negative".

Yeah, their close contact policy is a joke. And I know I’m not in the minority who thinks that.

Nope I don’t work there. Have a kid in middle and feel like the covid safety has been strong, minimized within community spread, and resulted in mostly in-person school which is the goal.

Yeah, it worked well with a handful of cases last year and the early part of this year, truly. But with 40+ cases this week, they gotta step it up a notch.

Another Langley parent here. We have actually been very happy with the covid protocols. Covid changes quickly and I have been happy to see how quickly Langley has adjusted. Testing every other week in the lower school was reasonable when there were so few cases - in fact, I hoped they would stop that testing for vaccinated students. But, then omicron came and Langley has to adopt again. They expanded testing to the Primary school (did you hear the number of 3 year olds crying hysterically?) and implemented a tracking dashboard. What else do you want from them? If you've got ideas, you should tell them.

They've heard the feedback. We can start a list here:

1. If there's active covid cases in your household, please keep your kids home from school and do virtual learning. Just because your child tested negative week and a half ago doesnt imply they're ok going to school
2. Test at least once a week.
3. If your family traveled out of the region (specifically to a hot bed), maybe require a 5 day period before testing to send kids back to school

but again thats moot when certain parents think they can game the system

Our DMV private won't excuse these kids or provide virtual learning. Unless the child has Covid, they have to be at school if vaccinated.

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Who are these Langley parents gaming the system? I don’t buy it. If the test is positive they can’t come to school. Are you trying to tell us that there are kids who are positive from PCR tests (and/or the rapid test they had to submit Monday?).

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Hit reply too soon. There are positive cases who are at school?

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Anonymous wrote:Langley is only testing via PCR every other week, which is insane. No additional mitigation. I miss our old HOS.

Langley tests older grades weekly and just set up a covid dashboard that outlines the number of active cases school wide as well as by division and grade. Michele Claeys has made amazing improvements in just a short time in middle school. She’s been very responsive to parents (adjusted the schedule to increase frequency of core classes which is a major undertaking once the school year has started, improved the HS outplacement process, hired strong new teachers, created the positions of assistant division heads—things are running much more smoothly than last year). I would just ask if the frequency of testing for younger kids can be increased during this peak time. Don’t assume they will say no. Langley has handled covid incredibly well for the duration of the pandemic and is responsive to parents.

Langley covid policy has been a joke. You either work for the school or have addt'l incentives to spin this. There are many cases where the "administration" is relenting to certain parent pressure to keep kids and making up close contact policy eeven though there are clear cases of covid in the classroom. Many parents with active covid cases have sent their kids to school because the previous test was "negative".

Yeah, their close contact policy is a joke. And I know I’m not in the minority who thinks that.

Nope I don’t work there. Have a kid in middle and feel like the covid safety has been strong, minimized within community spread, and resulted in mostly in-person school which is the goal.

Yeah, it worked well with a handful of cases last year and the early part of this year, truly. But with 40+ cases this week, they gotta step it up a notch.

Another Langley parent here. We have actually been very happy with the covid protocols. Covid changes quickly and I have been happy to see how quickly Langley has adjusted. Testing every other week in the lower school was reasonable when there were so few cases - in fact, I hoped they would stop that testing for vaccinated students. But, then omicron came and Langley has to adopt again. They expanded testing to the Primary school (did you hear the number of 3 year olds crying hysterically?) and implemented a tracking dashboard. What else do you want from them? If you've got ideas, you should tell them.

What else do I want? I want them to be like Stone Ridge and NCS where a n95 or double surgical mask is required. My MS child is quarantined right now bc of close contact. I doubt a cloth mask was doing much to prevent transmission.

Your kid wouldn't be quarantined if they were vaccinated. Full stop. Take ownership of your own kid if you are so worried.

My kid IS vaccinated. My doctor wants her to quarantine from us because it’s that contagious.

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I’m PP. Who’s doctor is having child quarantine from the rest of the house after a close contact. The doctor did the same for her own child who had a close contact. Based on her having us do this, do you think close contacts should be back in school? Again, my child is vaccinated as was doctor’s child.

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Well, last year schools saw families at vacation homes or teen kids who wanted to stay in pajamas all day claiming a need for virtual education. There’s a good reason it’s not offered this January so easily.

My own teen tried to stay at home when he had a test at school.

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Exactly. Even the most selfish among us (who seem to disproportionately circle this board like it was a Qanon rally) should be able to appreciate short-term versus long-term problems. Short term closure is a short term inconvenience but it prevents longer-term worker shortages and associated consequences for businesses and the economy. And that’s not even counting the human suffering and grief costs, which I know the pretend-there’s-no-pandemic crowd don’t care about at all. So many Karen’s trying to call the Covid manager and demand better service, because Covid Karen’s needs come first.

You should read the op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday. It was interesting and noted that hospitals are in much worse shape when schools are closed. Nurses, doctors, and staff have children that need childcare when schools are closed.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m PP. Who’s doctor is having child quarantine from the rest of the house after a close contact. The doctor did the same for her own child who had a close contact. Based on her having us do this, do you think close contacts should be back in school? Again, my child is vaccinated as was doctor’s child.

I believe CDC guidelines is vaccinated close contacts who are children have no restrictions besides masking like everyone else, and schools are following this. They are also, in our schools case at least, making a point of not providing virtual learning or makeup work to close contact children who don't report to school. They will only provide work to children at home with Covid. So if you feel like your close contact child might develop Covid I guess it's on you to test them daily in this scenario n order to protect the community.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m PP. Who’s doctor is having child quarantine from the rest of the house after a close contact. The doctor did the same for her own child who had a close contact. Based on her having us do this, do you think close contacts should be back in school? Again, my child is vaccinated as was doctor’s child.

I believe CDC guidelines is vaccinated close contacts who are children have no restrictions besides masking like everyone else, and schools are following this. They are also, in our schools case at least, making a point of not providing virtual learning or makeup work to close contact children who don't report to school. They will only provide work to children at home with Covid. So if you feel like your close contact child might develop Covid I guess it's on you to test them daily in this scenario n order to protect the community.

So, if you've already got virtual programming going, you have to either have Covid or be an unvaccinated close-contact to learn virtually? It's it's already happening, why not invite anyone to participate? What does it matter? What does "making a point" actually accomplish?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m PP. Who’s doctor is having child quarantine from the rest of the house after a close contact. The doctor did the same for her own child who had a close contact. Based on her having us do this, do you think close contacts should be back in school? Again, my child is vaccinated as was doctor’s child.

I believe CDC guidelines is vaccinated close contacts who are children have no restrictions besides masking like everyone else, and schools are following this. They are also, in our schools case at least, making a point of not providing virtual learning or makeup work to close contact children who don't report to school. They will only provide work to children at home with Covid. So if you feel like your close contact child might develop Covid I guess it's on you to test them daily in this scenario n order to protect the community.

So, if you've already got virtual programming going, you have to either have Covid or be an unvaccinated close-contact to learn virtually? It's it's already happening, why not invite anyone to participate? What does it matter? What does "making a point" actually accomplish?

Because teaching kids in the classroom while also teaching kids virtually is incredibly for the teacher and has a negative impact on the quality all of the students are receiving. Makes sense to keep it to a minimum by restricting it to only kids who actually need to be out. By doing that, it’s not an every day thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m PP. Who’s doctor is having child quarantine from the rest of the house after a close contact. The doctor did the same for her own child who had a close contact. Based on her having us do this, do you think close contacts should be back in school? Again, my child is vaccinated as was doctor’s child.

I believe CDC guidelines is vaccinated close contacts who are children have no restrictions besides masking like everyone else, and schools are following this. They are also, in our schools case at least, making a point of not providing virtual learning or makeup work to close contact children who don't report to school. They will only provide work to children at home with Covid. So if you feel like your close contact child might develop Covid I guess it's on you to test them daily in this scenario n order to protect the community.

So, if you've already got virtual programming going, you have to either have Covid or be an unvaccinated close-contact to learn virtually? It's it's already happening, why not invite anyone to participate? What does it matter? What does "making a point" actually accomplish?

That's really happening? If it's already been initiated, and other kids are participating? That's shady.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m PP. Who’s doctor is having child quarantine from the rest of the house after a close contact. The doctor did the same for her own child who had a close contact. Based on her having us do this, do you think close contacts should be back in school? Again, my child is vaccinated as was doctor’s child.

I believe CDC guidelines is vaccinated close contacts who are children have no restrictions besides masking like everyone else, and schools are following this. They are also, in our schools case at least, making a point of not providing virtual learning or makeup work to close contact children who don't report to school. They will only provide work to children at home with Covid. So if you feel like your close contact child might develop Covid I guess it's on you to test them daily in this scenario n order to protect the community.

So, if you've already got virtual programming going, you have to either have Covid or be an unvaccinated close-contact to learn virtually? It's it's already happening, why not invite anyone to participate? What does it matter? What does "making a point" actually accomplish?

Because teaching kids in the classroom while also teaching kids virtually is incredibly for the teacher and has a negative impact on the quality all of the students are receiving. Makes sense to keep it to a minimum by restricting it to only kids who actually need to be out. By doing that, it’s not an every day thing.

So we have to endanger kids to make the environment better for others?