Schools closed January 3 and 4

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Anonymous wrote:Well. I'm impressed with the mayor's response.

I'm really pleased too, especially with test-to-return, rapid antigen tests readily available and expanded PCR test-at-home kits.

Yes. I also noticed how they kept emphasizing the safest place for kids is in school. All those posters freaking out about school closures are crazy.

It’s almost as if you were ignoring the part where us school closure folks have been advocating to close early this week because of the active public health emergency in schools, and test to return in January. It’s almost as if you just operate from knee-jerk reactions.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we shutting down school for two days Why can't we just require test kits to be distributed on Jan 1 and 2 so that students can return as planned at Jan 3. Also why do my fully vaccinated kids need to be tested if they are showing no symptoms.

It's a 30 second process, what's the big deal? Do you also ask why your fully vaccinated kids have to wash their hands before meals?

The best reason for hand washing has never been Covid.

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Anonymous wrote:Did they say whether they are making up these days? Before you jump on me, I’m ambivalent about whether they do just please please please not in June.

Why not in June? Does it interfere with your personal plans? There are scheduled snow days already on the June calendar, which most likely we won't need, so can use for this.

Because those days in June are useless. No one is teaching anything June 23

If the school year gets extended two days, one would hope that they would stop teaching stuff two days later. Or when do you think is the point they stop teaching? All of June? The last week of June no matter what the last day is?

Most kids are checked out around. June 15 (you know when most school systems are letting out for summer). Teachers can keep plowing away but it doesn’t actually mean your kids are learning anything

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we shutting down school for two days Why can't we just require test kits to be distributed on Jan 1 and 2 so that students can return as planned at Jan 3. Also why do my fully vaccinated kids need to be tested if they are showing no symptoms.

Are you volunteering to hand out tests New Years Day?

NP but happy to. I take it you have better things to do?

I do! I’m spending time with my kids on New Years. We always bake cookies and watch movies. I wouldn’t trade that to pass out tests.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we shutting down school for two days Why can't we just require test kits to be distributed on Jan 1 and 2 so that students can return as planned at Jan 3. Also why do my fully vaccinated kids need to be tested if they are showing no symptoms.

Are you volunteering to hand out tests New Years Day?

NP but happy to. I take it you have better things to do?

I do! I’m spending time with my kids on New Years. We always bake cookies and watch movies. I wouldn’t trade that to pass out tests.

Exactly! My company gave us 1/3 off because the 1st is on a Saturday.

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People will find anything to complain about 🙄. The mayor has laid out a plan, which is more than some districts. They are actually working to keep kids in school. As a new parent to DCPS and I appreciate the guidance from DC and execution from outer charter.

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What are the logistics of test to return? Assuming testing is mandatory- are the tests returned to the school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we shutting down school for two days Why can't we just require test kits to be distributed on Jan 1 and 2 so that students can return as planned at Jan 3. Also why do my fully vaccinated kids need to be tested if they are showing no symptoms.

Are you volunteering to hand out tests New Years Day?

NP but happy to. I take it you have better things to do?

I do! I’m spending time with my kids on New Years. We always bake cookies and watch movies. I wouldn’t trade that to pass out tests.

Exactly! My company gave us 1/3 off because the 1st is on a Saturday.

Fair enough. Community service is a wonderful activity too... Perhaps something to consider for a future year depending on your kids' ages.

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Anonymous wrote:What are the logistics of test to return? Assuming testing is mandatory- are the tests returned to the school?

It’s not test to return.

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If the test isn't required to return, this is just wasted time off.

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glad school will be closed for two days after hte holidays. glad there is (hopefully) a plan for general testing. testing should be mandatory. omicron is spreading fast and people will travel for the holidays and/or see friends and family. my kids are at large schools (Wilson and Deal) where distancing is impossible. a numbver of positive kids going back to school may wreck havoc. this thing is spreading also among people who are vaccianated and even boosted. it's a little like checking entire school for head lice at the beginning of the year. you check at the begining, send home the infected and avoid a school wide mess. this is a virus not headlice but checking everybody is criucial. anticaxxers can go F themselves, this is just a test not a vaccine

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Anonymous wrote:People will find anything to complain about 🙄. The mayor has laid out a plan, which is more than some districts. They are actually working to keep kids in school. As a new parent to DCPS and I appreciate the guidance from DC and execution from outer charter.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well. I'm impressed with the mayor's response.

I'm really pleased too, especially with test-to-return, rapid antigen tests readily available and expanded PCR test-at-home kits.

Yes. I also noticed how they kept emphasizing the safest place for kids is in school. All those posters freaking out about school closures are crazy.

It’s almost as if you were ignoring the part where us school closure folks have been advocating to close early this week because of the active public health emergency in schools, and test to return in January. It’s almost as if you just operate from knee-jerk reactions.

Yep. As a teacher who tested + today really glad we kept schools open as things spiked and I now get to spend the holidays in quarantine.

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I love the idea of test to stay … finally my unvaccinated children can continue going to school. Bravo CDC !!!

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Anonymous wrote:I love the idea of test to stay … finally my unvaccinated children can continue going to school. Bravo CDC !!!

This isn't test to stay....