Happy Sunday PK parents - may the odds be ever in your favor

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Anonymous wrote:I support weekly testing or whatever it takes to make teachers/parents feel more comfortable. But man, waiting until 4 pm on Sundays to learn whether we have preschool for the week is going to get real old real fast.

If you test your kids now and they are negative then why would you need to wait until 4?

They shut the whole class down if any child tests positive. At least that’s what our principal told us.

Really? Our PK3 class had a positive last week and didn’t get shut down.

The exposure goes back two days. Last week tests were on Monday.

Hmm, our class has at a least three kids who had Covid over the break. I don’t immediately see a “recent exposure” exception but seems like wouldn’t make sense to make healthy kids stay home who had no chance of getting Covid. If they do that then this is literally all just theatre

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I support weekly testing or whatever it takes to make teachers/parents feel more comfortable. But man, waiting until 4 pm on Sundays to learn whether we have preschool for the week is going to get real old real fast.

I do not support this at all. It’s ONLY to make anxious people feel better. They should absolutely move the testing to Monday before school as to avoid automatically quarantining whole classes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I support weekly testing or whatever it takes to make teachers/parents feel more comfortable. But man, waiting until 4 pm on Sundays to learn whether we have preschool for the week is going to get real old real fast.

If you test your kids now and they are negative then why would you need to wait until 4?

They shut the whole class down if any child tests positive. At least that’s what our principal told us.

Really? Our PK3 class had a positive last week and didn’t get shut down.

The exposure goes back two days. Last week tests were on Monday.

Hmm, our class has at a least three kids who had Covid over the break. I don’t immediately see a “recent exposure” exception but seems like wouldn’t make sense to make healthy kids stay home who had no chance of getting Covid. If they do that then this is literally all just theatre

This could be addressed by test to stay. One of many many reasons it is essential for DCPS to implement test to stay as soon as possible to minimize needless learning loss for these kids (not to mention major disruption for their parents).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I support weekly testing or whatever it takes to make teachers/parents feel more comfortable. But man, waiting until 4 pm on Sundays to learn whether we have preschool for the week is going to get real old real fast.

If you test your kids now and they are negative then why would you need to wait until 4?

They shut the whole class down if any child tests positive. At least that’s what our principal told us.

Really? Our PK3 class had a positive last week and didn’t get shut down.

The exposure goes back two days. Last week tests were on Monday.

So what happens if a kid isn’t in class on Friday so wasn’t exposed? That kid still gets to go in?

[Anonymous]

For anyone who wants to join a group of DC parents that is fighting to urgently implement test-to-stay in all DC daycares, see our materials below.

DC daycare advocacy guide: https://tinyurl.com/57sapzjy

Petition: https://chng.it/vTzRTQKGHf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For anyone who wants to join a group of DC parents that is fighting to urgently implement test-to-stay in all DC daycares, see our materials below.

DC daycare advocacy guide: https://tinyurl.com/57sapzjy

Petition: https://chng.it/vTzRTQKGHf

You've got a whole lot more going on in that petition than test to stay

[Anonymous]

There was a positive in my kid’s pk3 class and everyone had to quarantine. But kids that were absent that Friday did not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I support weekly testing or whatever it takes to make teachers/parents feel more comfortable. But man, waiting until 4 pm on Sundays to learn whether we have preschool for the week is going to get real old real fast.

If you test your kids now and they are negative then why would you need to wait until 4?

They shut the whole class down if any child tests positive. At least that’s what our principal told us.

That is annoying. I wish instead they had Monday morning tests to avoid total closure

I think the point is to avoid your child being exposed the the positive child. If they all come Monday, everyone is exposed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For anyone who wants to join a group of DC parents that is fighting to urgently implement test-to-stay in all DC daycares, see our materials below.

DC daycare advocacy guide: https://tinyurl.com/57sapzjy

Petition: https://chng.it/vTzRTQKGHf

Yeah. There has to be something between the wear red walk outs and the no more masks dueling protests.

You've got a whole lot more going on in that petition than test to stay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a positive in my kid’s pk3 class and everyone had to quarantine. But kids that were absent that Friday did not.

That’s incentivizes me to consider keeping my kid home on Fridays…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There was a positive in my kid’s pk3 class and everyone had to quarantine. But kids that were absent that Friday did not.

That’s incentivizes me to consider keeping my kid home on Fridays…

Do it!
You will get 4 in person days every week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There was a positive in my kid’s pk3 class and everyone had to quarantine. But kids that were absent that Friday did not.

That’s incentivizes me to consider keeping my kid home on Fridays…

Not sure if you’re serious but my thought is that your child wouldn’t be considered a close contact but the class will still go virtual. I doubt the PK teacher would come in to teach one kid (which is also the problem with the low vax rates/eligibility in these grades). I could be wrong though. Testing all on Monday morning would fix this, but probably be too chaotic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a positive in my kid’s pk3 class and everyone had to quarantine. But kids that were absent that Friday did not.

That’s incentivizes me to consider keeping my kid home on Fridays…

Not sure if you’re serious but my thought is that your child wouldn’t be considered a close contact but the class will still go virtual. I doubt the PK teacher would come in to teach one kid (which is also the problem with the low vax rates/eligibility in these grades). I could be wrong though. Testing all on Monday morning would fix this, but probably be too chaotic.

Why wouldn’t the teacher come in for one kid? Where is the line? They come on for five kids or more? Virtual doesn’t really work for PK3 anyway so if the teacher isn’t coming in for one kid it’s not as if they are going to be doing an alternative virtual lesson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a positive in my kid’s pk3 class and everyone had to quarantine. But kids that were absent that Friday did not.

That’s incentivizes me to consider keeping my kid home on Fridays…

Not sure if you’re serious but my thought is that your child wouldn’t be considered a close contact but the class will still go virtual. I doubt the PK teacher would come in to teach one kid (which is also the problem with the low vax rates/eligibility in these grades). I could be wrong though. Testing all on Monday morning would fix this, but probably be too chaotic.

Why wouldn’t the teacher come in for one kid? Where is the line? They come on for five kids or more? Virtual doesn’t really work for PK3 anyway so if the teacher isn’t coming in for one kid it’s not as if they are going to be doing an alternative virtual lesson.

Exactly. We did PK4 virtually in March 2020 and it was worse than useless. I would 100% be the parent that keeps kid out of school Fridays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For anyone who wants to join a group of DC parents that is fighting to urgently implement test-to-stay in all DC daycares, see our materials below.

DC daycare advocacy guide: https://tinyurl.com/57sapzjy

Petition: https://chng.it/vTzRTQKGHf

Signed, thank you!