Have you sign-up for weekly asymptomatic testing at APS
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Anonymous
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It's clear to me that we won't opt in. Poorly designed and disruptive. And Covid is not a huge risk for under-10s which my child is.
I am becoming disenchanted with Duran overall in management of the many decisions. I am deeply disappointed in Bridget Loft and what I read about the VLP issues; I am not one of those families but feel like APS is failing those children and families. We love our elementary school and are so glad to be in person. But deeply disappointed in the higher APS administration in all this. They've been dealt a hard situation and won't make everyone happy, but could certainly do better. |
Anonymous
Considering the small number of students who have opted in thus far, I would expect that in order to get the 10-15 individual pool, there would need to potentially be students from 3-5 classrooms in each pool. Quarantining this many kids (and their contacts?) based on PCR results, that may be picking up long-gone infections, is asinine. This is a recipe for non-stop disruption for students, with ZERO public health benefit. |
Anonymous
Per parent who emailed w/ APS regarding these types of questions, the pools are by school. |
Anonymous
Which parent? On AEM? Did they share a screenshot? |
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Anonymous
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I will believe it when I see it.
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Anonymous
APE's Facebook page is where news and analyses on APS data takes place. |
Anonymous
Can you share a screenshot of the email? If not… |
Anonymous
APE’s post has an update from Pope that it will be 6 to a pool. That’s definitely better but I still don’t trust aps not to unnecessarily quarantine my kid. |
Anonymous
I haven't received a response back yet. Has anyone else emailed and gotten a response? |
Anonymous
I decided to email them again and ask for confirmation, they responded immediately. So if anyone is looking to revoke, now seems to be a good time. |
Anonymous
| Not just no. But hell no. I did everything I was supposed to do and Arlington f’d us. Not doing another thing to protect other people’s kids. |
Anonymous
That’s the spirit. |
Anonymous
i asked for a confirmation of my revocation of consent and have gotten no response |
Anonymous
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Before making a decision, please read the updated information from the APS website:
https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2021-22/health-safety-information/covid-19-testing/?fbclid=IwAR2KIfopA39fRt78DGXJsjOgWXNt01U2pt6ZtpYICX5k8UISSAKDOC-4KEE "If a pool were to come up as a positive, the laboratory uses an algorithm to determine which samples to test for confirmation of which student(s) within the pool are positive. These confirmation results will be followed up with a running of the individual sample(s) identified to confirm positive status. {so you don't need to get a separate test on your own. The original sample is saved to run individually.} During the confirmation period, the suspected positive student(s) in the pool who are identified using the algorithm will be excluded from in person instruction and activities {so not everyone in the pool}. The family can expect to receive definitive confirmation of the positive results after individual sample(s) are ran for confirmation which on average is 12-24 hours. The entire participants in the pool will not need to quarantine during this process unless they are identified as a suspected case using the algorithm on the pooled samples." I have no idea how they can use an algorithm to figure out who in the pool needs to quarantine, but this sounds pretty reasonable to me. I will keep my child enrolled. There is also some information from Resource Path that APS hasn't shared (at least not with me...): https://www.resourcepath.net/first-week-back-at-school-how-is-everyone-doing/?fbclid=IwAR0cRHH6WrtlP-PiJsKN61d9I9wzCBb5eOpmd7y1GVDIeNhleXIPlMuKdUk |