Have you sign-up for weekly asymptomatic testing at APS

[Anonymous]

Some of you really need to take your moral smugness and shove it up your a**.

So sick of the lecturers assuming they know everything about everyone else’s situation and deciding how everyone should behave. It is enraging. Mind. Your. Own. Business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

My kids are going to school and that’s it. No activities outside of school because nothing for my family is worth the risk.
I work from home and the bus stop/pickup from school are the only times I leave the house.
I am a single mom and have four elementary age kids who are too young to be vaccinated. If one of them tests positive for covid, that child is home for two weeks since they are asymptomatic. His sibling are home for those two weeks, and then another two weeks after his quarantine period ends. There is no kick out period to lower the quarantine— you have to be excluded for at least ten days past the last encounter with the positive case— so the most conservative amount of time my asymptomatic kids will be out of school is 24 days. Since it’s only them, that’s effectively a month with no school. They are already behind. I will not be able to catch them up.
If they got sick, it came from school. They don’t go anywhere else.
If you want to call people selfish, call the asshats who refuse to vaccinate, or the people asking for no masks, or the people going to Disney or to Mexico with their unvaccinated kids. Or just the assholes who are still having indoor parties or eating inside or that gym teacher who doesn’t want to get vaccinated. Everyone other than the elementary kids had an opportunity to be vaccinated at this point— the ones who didn’t are the selfish ones.

You are 100% selfish too. I don’t believe for one second that you lock your kids in the house except for the bus and school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t be a choice. APS should require it.

x1 million

Ignore the complainers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

My kids are going to school and that’s it. No activities outside of school because nothing for my family is worth the risk.
I work from home and the bus stop/pickup from school are the only times I leave the house.
I am a single mom and have four elementary age kids who are too young to be vaccinated. If one of them tests positive for covid, that child is home for two weeks since they are asymptomatic. His sibling are home for those two weeks, and then another two weeks after his quarantine period ends. There is no kick out period to lower the quarantine— you have to be excluded for at least ten days past the last encounter with the positive case— so the most conservative amount of time my asymptomatic kids will be out of school is 24 days. Since it’s only them, that’s effectively a month with no school. They are already behind. I will not be able to catch them up.
If they got sick, it came from school. They don’t go anywhere else.
If you want to call people selfish, call the asshats who refuse to vaccinate, or the people asking for no masks, or the people going to Disney or to Mexico with their unvaccinated kids. Or just the assholes who are still having indoor parties or eating inside or that gym teacher who doesn’t want to get vaccinated. Everyone other than the elementary kids had an opportunity to be vaccinated at this point— the ones who didn’t are the selfish ones.

I get your point but they won’t be excluded for 14 days, students can return after 8 days with negative covid test on days 5-7 (not sure if you need one each day or that’s just the window they look from)

Not true. If you live with a positive case, your last contact is either 14 days after they test positive or 10 days from when their symptoms improve. If they are asymptomatic, it’s all 14 days. Your quarantine would start after their last day. So the earliest you can send a sibling back is 22 days after their sibling tests positive (with a negative test). If you have more than two kids, and the second one tests positive on day 19 (5 days after your last contact), the third is out two weeks + 8 days minimum, anc the first one gets kicked back into quarantine.

[Anonymous]

Weekly testing… but as long as your kid is 3(!) feet away from a kid with known Covid, the school won’t even tell you, as it’s not considered a close contact. Funny how it’s a close contact in every other setting but K-12 kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t be a choice. APS should require it.

x1 million

Ignore the complainers.

Yup. Just reading this thread… it should just be a choice. Mandate this. Mandate the vaccine when it’s available. I’m sick of this nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t be a choice. APS should require it.

x1 million

Ignore the complainers.

Yup. Just reading this thread… it should just be a choice. Mandate this. Mandate the vaccine when it’s available. I’m sick of this nonsense.

I mean, it should NOT be a choice!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

My kids are going to school and that’s it. No activities outside of school because nothing for my family is worth the risk.
I work from home and the bus stop/pickup from school are the only times I leave the house.
I am a single mom and have four elementary age kids who are too young to be vaccinated. If one of them tests positive for covid, that child is home for two weeks since they are asymptomatic. His sibling are home for those two weeks, and then another two weeks after his quarantine period ends. There is no kick out period to lower the quarantine— you have to be excluded for at least ten days past the last encounter with the positive case— so the most conservative amount of time my asymptomatic kids will be out of school is 24 days. Since it’s only them, that’s effectively a month with no school. They are already behind. I will not be able to catch them up.
If they got sick, it came from school. They don’t go anywhere else.
If you want to call people selfish, call the asshats who refuse to vaccinate, or the people asking for no masks, or the people going to Disney or to Mexico with their unvaccinated kids. Or just the assholes who are still having indoor parties or eating inside or that gym teacher who doesn’t want to get vaccinated. Everyone other than the elementary kids had an opportunity to be vaccinated at this point— the ones who didn’t are the selfish ones.

I get your point but they won’t be excluded for 14 days, students can return after 8 days with negative covid test on days 5-7 (not sure if you need one each day or that’s just the window they look from)

Not true. If you live with a positive case, your last contact is either 14 days after they test positive or 10 days from when their symptoms improve. If they are asymptomatic, it’s all 14 days. Your quarantine would start after their last day. So the earliest you can send a sibling back is 22 days after their sibling tests positive (with a negative test). If you have more than two kids, and the second one tests positive on day 19 (5 days after your last contact), the third is out two weeks + 8 days minimum, anc the first one gets kicked back into quarantine.

That’s not what the APS FAQ says
“ Students with confirmed cases and close contacts must quarantine for 7 days, with a negative test on day 5-7 through ResourcePath, return on day 8. Fully vaccinated individuals are exempt from quarantine, as verified by School Health or Human Resources (employee).”

[Anonymous]

So if you live with someone who has covid, your last contact with that person is the day they can stop quarantining. That’s 14 days after the positive test is asymptomatic. Your quarantine period starts after your last contact with a positive case. So you can’t go back to school on day 8 if a sibling tested positive on day 1. The earliest you could go back would be day 15, and that’s if you also tested positive (assuming you take a test on day 1). If you don’t test positive, you can go back 8 days after the quarantine for your family member ends.
The cdc had a graphic showing asymptomatic quarantine periods for family members, I’ll see if I can find it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if you live with someone who has covid, your last contact with that person is the day they can stop quarantining. That’s 14 days after the positive test is asymptomatic. Your quarantine period starts after your last contact with a positive case. So you can’t go back to school on day 8 if a sibling tested positive on day 1. The earliest you could go back would be day 15, and that’s if you also tested positive (assuming you take a test on day 1). If you don’t test positive, you can go back 8 days after the quarantine for your family member ends.
The cdc had a graphic showing asymptomatic quarantine periods for family members, I’ll see if I can find it.

This is not what Arlington dept of health said in the last couple of weeks. They let siblings test out by testing 4 days after the first positive test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if you live with someone who has covid, your last contact with that person is the day they can stop quarantining. That’s 14 days after the positive test is asymptomatic. Your quarantine period starts after your last contact with a positive case. So you can’t go back to school on day 8 if a sibling tested positive on day 1. The earliest you could go back would be day 15, and that’s if you also tested positive (assuming you take a test on day 1). If you don’t test positive, you can go back 8 days after the quarantine for your family member ends.
The cdc had a graphic showing asymptomatic quarantine periods for family members, I’ll see if I can find it.

Students who actually test positive don’t even need to quarantine 14 days.
Again,
“ Students with confirmed cases and close contacts must quarantine for 7 days, with a negative test on day 5-7 through ResourcePath, return on day 8. Fully vaccinated individuals are exempt from quarantine, as verified by School Health or Human Resources (employee).”

[Anonymous]

This happened to my family last summer— my daughter was a close contact through daycare so we got her tested and it came back positive but she never developed symptoms. Everyone else in the family had to stay in quarantine for 4 weeks because our two week period didn’t start until hers ended.

Your “last exposure” is when the isolation period ends for your family member. I think aps will shorten the follow on quarantine to 8 days, but that’s still a long period out of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if you live with someone who has covid, your last contact with that person is the day they can stop quarantining. That’s 14 days after the positive test is asymptomatic. Your quarantine period starts after your last contact with a positive case. So you can’t go back to school on day 8 if a sibling tested positive on day 1. The earliest you could go back would be day 15, and that’s if you also tested positive (assuming you take a test on day 1). If you don’t test positive, you can go back 8 days after the quarantine for your family member ends.
The cdc had a graphic showing asymptomatic quarantine periods for family members, I’ll see if I can find it.

Students who actually test positive don’t even need to quarantine 14 days.
Again,
“ Students with confirmed cases and close contacts must quarantine for 7 days, with a negative test on day 5-7 through ResourcePath, return on day 8. Fully vaccinated individuals are exempt from quarantine, as verified by School Health or Human Resources (employee).”

Students who test positive and aren’t vaccinated are not exempt from future quarantine. You can only go back on day 8 if you still aren’t testing positive. Otherwise it’s 14 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: There you have it folks. People don’t care if their kids have Covid as long as they can go to school. This is why we can’t have nice things.

You’re right. I DON’T CARE IF THEY GET COVID. They will get it. And they will be fine. They 100% need to be in school.

JFC. You’re criminal.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not. My daughter had to get 2 covid tests during the pandemic and she was terrified. It was a huge struggle to get her to even let the doctor near her at her check up after going through that.