New asymptomatic testing protocol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a chance in 10 that we'll find out about a school outbreak, now.
I don't understand how they could play bait and switch to this extent in the middle of a term. I am so disgusted. The promise of testing each opted-in student every 10 days was a factor in the decision of many families whether to send their kids into school. What can they do now? Nothing at all. It's unethical to take away a promised safety layer after that safety layer has been an important factor in families' decisions to send their children back.

And to make that decision just when the cohort quarantining map was *turning red* with a dozen schools a week sending out notifications of a positive person having sat in a room for hours with a dozen other people? Unconscionable. Irresponsible.

But the real question is: did any and I mean ANY transmission happen in those classrooms? That's the real thing we need to know. We can know that by having everyone in the classroom tested during the quarantine period.

I would venture that it's quite possible, even probable, that these asymptomatic children did not pass along any disease. With vaccinated teachers, we should not be so worried. You may worry if you as a parent are high risk (in which case, get your vaccine, you are now eligible).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a chance in 10 that we'll find out about a school outbreak, now.
I don't understand how they could play bait and switch to this extent in the middle of a term. I am so disgusted. The promise of testing each opted-in student every 10 days was a factor in the decision of many families whether to send their kids into school. What can they do now? Nothing at all. It's unethical to take away a promised safety layer after that safety layer has been an important factor in families' decisions to send their children back.

And to make that decision just when the cohort quarantining map was *turning red* with a dozen schools a week sending out notifications of a positive person having sat in a room for hours with a dozen other people? Unconscionable. Irresponsible.

Asymptomatic testing only accurately detects COVID 40% of the time across the general population. That number is lower for young children. If you actually think that that asymptomatic testing every 10 days help, you are gravely misled. If anything, it actually hurts because it can provide false reassurance.

40% of what?

They sent out FIFTEEN case notification letters last week. That's a dozen cohorts quarantined. If we assume your 40% number is correct, do you think that is a good reason to test vastly less than we had committed to? There's a lot of great misleading going around, but I'm not sure I get your argument.

I’m not sure i understand your question? If someone has asymptomatic COVID, a test is generally only going to detect it about 40% of the time, on average. So more than half of the time, your result will be a false negative. Yes, that likely means there are people with COVID who tested negative at schools over the time we’ve been back. But at least with respect to elementary school-aged kids which are the ones who have mostly been back, the good thing is that COVID is extremely unlikely to spread from asymptomatic kids wearing masks. AND kids with masks are less likely to catch COVID. So the risks of spread are super super small

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a chance in 10 that we'll find out about a school outbreak, now.
I don't understand how they could play bait and switch to this extent in the middle of a term. I am so disgusted. The promise of testing each opted-in student every 10 days was a factor in the decision of many families whether to send their kids into school. What can they do now? Nothing at all. It's unethical to take away a promised safety layer after that safety layer has been an important factor in families' decisions to send their children back.

And to make that decision just when the cohort quarantining map was *turning red* with a dozen schools a week sending out notifications of a positive person having sat in a room for hours with a dozen other people? Unconscionable. Irresponsible.

feel free to pull your kid out. the space will be easily filled.

Enjoy my spot. We are sending our kid to private next year where testing all children will continue into the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a chance in 10 that we'll find out about a school outbreak, now.
I don't understand how they could play bait and switch to this extent in the middle of a term. I am so disgusted. The promise of testing each opted-in student every 10 days was a factor in the decision of many families whether to send their kids into school. What can they do now? Nothing at all. It's unethical to take away a promised safety layer after that safety layer has been an important factor in families' decisions to send their children back.

And to make that decision just when the cohort quarantining map was *turning red* with a dozen schools a week sending out notifications of a positive person having sat in a room for hours with a dozen other people? Unconscionable. Irresponsible.

feel free to pull your kid out. the space will be easily filled.

Enjoy my spot. We are sending our kid to private next year where testing all children will continue into the fall.

do you actually have a kid in person or just stirring the pot?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a chance in 10 that we'll find out about a school outbreak, now.
I don't understand how they could play bait and switch to this extent in the middle of a term. I am so disgusted. The promise of testing each opted-in student every 10 days was a factor in the decision of many families whether to send their kids into school. What can they do now? Nothing at all. It's unethical to take away a promised safety layer after that safety layer has been an important factor in families' decisions to send their children back.

And to make that decision just when the cohort quarantining map was *turning red* with a dozen schools a week sending out notifications of a positive person having sat in a room for hours with a dozen other people? Unconscionable. Irresponsible.

feel free to pull your kid out. the space will be easily filled.

Enjoy my spot. We are sending our kid to private next year where testing all children will continue into the fall.

do you actually have a kid in person or just stirring the pot?

I'm the PP who finds the bait-and-switch mid-term unconscionable. My DCPS kid is currently not attending in-person, but virtually, and will continue through term 4, apparently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a chance in 10 that we'll find out about a school outbreak, now.
I don't understand how they could play bait and switch to this extent in the middle of a term. I am so disgusted. The promise of testing each opted-in student every 10 days was a factor in the decision of many families whether to send their kids into school. What can they do now? Nothing at all. It's unethical to take away a promised safety layer after that safety layer has been an important factor in families' decisions to send their children back.

And to make that decision just when the cohort quarantining map was *turning red* with a dozen schools a week sending out notifications of a positive person having sat in a room for hours with a dozen other people? Unconscionable. Irresponsible.

feel free to pull your kid out. the space will be easily filled.

Enjoy my spot. We are sending our kid to private next year where testing all children will continue into the fall.

do you actually have a kid in person or just stirring the pot?

I'm the PP who finds the bait-and-switch mid-term unconscionable. My DCPS kid is currently not attending in-person, but virtually, and will continue through term 4, apparently.

Id est, not the same poster moving the private, who's just stirring the pot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So no testing?

Random 10% each week of all those who opted into testing.
So it gives us some sort of idea of the level of virus circulating. It doesn't help interrupt in-school outbreaks.

It also destroys the utility of what couod have been great research data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a chance in 10 that we'll find out about a school outbreak, now.
I don't understand how they could play bait and switch to this extent in the middle of a term. I am so disgusted. The promise of testing each opted-in student every 10 days was a factor in the decision of many families whether to send their kids into school. What can they do now? Nothing at all. It's unethical to take away a promised safety layer after that safety layer has been an important factor in families' decisions to send their children back.

And to make that decision just when the cohort quarantining map was *turning red* with a dozen schools a week sending out notifications of a positive person having sat in a room for hours with a dozen other people? Unconscionable. Irresponsible.

Asymptomatic testing only accurately detects COVID 40% of the time across the general population. That number is lower for young children. If you actually think that that asymptomatic testing every 10 days help, you are gravely misled. If anything, it actually hurts because it can provide false reassurance.

40% of what?

They sent out FIFTEEN case notification letters last week. That's a dozen cohorts quarantined. If we assume your 40% number is correct, do you think that is a good reason to test vastly less than we had committed to? There's a lot of great misleading going around, but I'm not sure I get your argument.

Where did you find that information?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a chance in 10 that we'll find out about a school outbreak, now.
I don't understand how they could play bait and switch to this extent in the middle of a term. I am so disgusted. The promise of testing each opted-in student every 10 days was a factor in the decision of many families whether to send their kids into school. What can they do now? Nothing at all. It's unethical to take away a promised safety layer after that safety layer has been an important factor in families' decisions to send their children back.

And to make that decision just when the cohort quarantining map was *turning red* with a dozen schools a week sending out notifications of a positive person having sat in a room for hours with a dozen other people? Unconscionable. Irresponsible.

Asymptomatic testing only accurately detects COVID 40% of the time across the general population. That number is lower for young children. If you actually think that that asymptomatic testing every 10 days help, you are gravely misled. If anything, it actually hurts because it can provide false reassurance.

40% of what?

They sent out FIFTEEN case notification letters last week. That's a dozen cohorts quarantined. If we assume your 40% number is correct, do you think that is a good reason to test vastly less than we had committed to? There's a lot of great misleading going around, but I'm not sure I get your argument.

Where did you find that information?

https://dcpsreopenstrong.com/health/response/notifications/
They sent NINE this week as of yesterday Wednesday.