APS already has stopped quarantine for vaccinated contacts. This has been in place for over a month. Find something new to complain about. Test to Stay only impacts unvaccinated students. |
Test to stay would also be helpful with the sketchy symptoms that can get your kid sent home - vaccinated or not. My daughter has been sent home with a headache twice, and a stomach ache once. Kids with allergies are getting sent home as well. TTS would keep those kids with normal, non contagious, ailments from missing school for no reason. |
Hoping Youngkin ditches quarantines for our close contacts (after his interview this week, I think he will). Healthy kids need to be in school. |
I think FCPS has the same policy. |
Why aren't you vaccinating your kid? Healthy kids can be vaccinated. There are no quarantines for vaccinated close contacts. If you choose not to vaccinate, you're going to have to live with the consequences. |
An entire basketball team tested positive at WL recently.
We know 3 teens at WL on our street that tested positive over the last 3 days (not of same friend group). We also know a few at YHS. It's rampant in the HS now...so I assume middle school too--though we have only heard a couple 'reported' cases via kids that opted in for testing. |
It’s everywhere. I feel like if you’re negative you’re in the minority. The big super spreader events were the three W-L/Yorktown basketball games played last Thursday. Kids from all the high schools attended and now many more than a handful have tested positive. |
Are they showing symptoms? I'm wondering if people are catching asymptomatic b/c of travel or if they are testing b/c of symptoms (says the person who has congestion on and off half the year). |
These are political decisions the CDC has made to drive up vaccination rates for kids, considering the extremely low risk of COVID to kids. The CDC chose kids missing school. We have a new leader Youngkin who chooses kids' education first. If you want COVID monomania, move to Maryland. |
The approach needs to be updated for Omicron. This variant is different. |
My kid has a pregnant teacher. I wouldn’t want to put her at risk. |
27K kids must suffer because of 1 teacher who can be given other alternatives to stay safe. Makes 0 sense, unless you don't prioritize kids getting educated. |
The schools I'm aware of (2 ES, 1 middle school) send emails to all parents when there has been a case and notes which grade. They don't specify the classroom, just the grade. You can deduce a decent amount of spread based on how close in time the emails come out for each grade. There is spread, just not enough for it to require schools to shut down which tells me the mitigation measure work, so keep them up and vax your kids! |
27,000 students? This might be the stupidest take I've ever read on these cursed message boards |
DP. It is attitudes like yours that are driving teachers out of the classroom. My family prioritizes teachers' safety over your kid's "getting educated." Because LOL at you saying "other alternatives" without identifying any of them. That's because there are NONE that will satisfy a lazy parent like you. Why on earth do people like you have kids anyway? |