Now testing is opt-out, not opt-in

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How do we opt out?

https://osse.dc.gov/page/school-based-covid-19-testing

I'm not seeing to whom you submit. Also - is there a way to electronically submit? It seems like you have to print it out. Thanks.

Take a photo and email it to your registrar.[/quote

Good call. They aren't trying to make it easy to opt out. They could have easily made this form writable, but they chose not to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do we opt out?

https://osse.dc.gov/page/school-based-covid-19-testing

I'm not seeing to whom you submit. Also - is there a way to electronically submit? It seems like you have to print it out. Thanks.

Take a photo and email it to your registrar.[/quote

Good call. They aren't trying to make it easy to opt out. They could have easily made this form writable, but they chose not to.

It’s a very short form and not a lot of work to fill out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone so worried about false positives? If you get a positive result, go get a PCR test to confirm. If that's negative, great.

Because school doesn't care if your false positive was false. You're still out for 10 days.

Ding, ding, ding! This is why I have opted out for my vaccinated daughter. No testing asymptomatic vaccinated people, please! If she has symptoms I will keep her home and get her tested . . . but not putting her into this DCPS testing quagmire.

One more time: DOH recommends this program for *unvaccinated* students.

They don’t want to test a bunch of asymptomatic, vaccinated people.

Please cite your source for this statement - that DOH/DCPS does not intend to test asymptomatic vaccinated students. Because I have not seen/read that important detail anywhere, and I have very little faith that those implementing the testing will follow that principle (if it even is one of the testing program, which I don't believe).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone so worried about false positives? If you get a positive result, go get a PCR test to confirm. If that's negative, great.

Because school doesn't care if your false positive was false. You're still out for 10 days.

Ding, ding, ding! This is why I have opted out for my vaccinated daughter. No testing asymptomatic vaccinated people, please! If she has symptoms I will keep her home and get her tested . . . but not putting her into this DCPS testing quagmire.

One more time: DOH recommends this program for *unvaccinated* students.

They don’t want to test a bunch of asymptomatic, vaccinated people.

Please cite your source for this statement - that DOH/DCPS does not intend to test asymptomatic vaccinated students. Because I have not seen/read that important detail anywhere, and I have very little faith that those implementing the testing will follow that principle (if it even is one of the testing program, which I don't believe).

Literally in the testing form: https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/page_content/attachments/OPT%20OUT%20SchoolBased%20Testing_082721_1.pdf

Read “Who should test?”

[Anonymous]

And how do they know who is vaccinated or not in order to supposedly focus on the unvaccinated? Will the school ask children directly if they’re vaccinated? That doesn’t seem appropriate if we can’t even know is the teacher is vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And how do they know who is vaccinated or not in order to supposedly focus on the unvaccinated? Will the school ask children directly if they’re vaccinated? That doesn’t seem appropriate if we can’t even know is the teacher is vaccinated.

Maybe opt out if your kids are vaccinated. Otherwise ask the school.