Test To Return for DCPS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone saying “testing is not invasive and not a big deal” is missing the point. This is covid theater pure and simple. Most other districts throughout the country, including in blue states, aren’t requiring this before school starts. DC holding on to something like testing before school is a sign it is not following public health guidance and hasn’t moved on in an appropriate, informed way, which makes many of us nervous we’re looking at more silly quarantines and closures when/if cases go up.

It isn’t Covid theater. Kids who are asymptomatic with Covid need to go home to contain the spread. Some kids aren’t vaccinated or have family members who are immunocompromised. Other states don’t have the resources to test to return.

By that logic we would need to test every day but that is completely ridiculous. Vaccinations and watching for symptoms is what we should be doing. Testing on one random day is just theatrics. And it continues to teach our kids to fear COVID when we are well past that point and should be helping them to move on and learn to live with it.

We use both both periodic, incidental and random sampling techniques to measure all sorts of things. To suggest that using these techniques means it's necessary to "to test every day" is completely wrong and a misunderstanding of the value of fairly basic statistics that are used in not only epidemiology but many other disciplines as well. If application of basic statistics teaches your children to "fear COVID", you probably should probably spend a bit of time on wikipedia so you can better explain to them why it's a useful technique that in no way impedes your ability to get vaccinated or watch for symptoms.

The District isn’t sampling. They aren’t studying prevalence. There’s no statistics involved at all. They certainly did not follow any basic rules of statistics in choosing the first day back as opposed to the second day. The district is applying a testing requirement to everyone on one random day to make it appear they are doing something. But the theatrics and lack of scientific basis just makes the whole thing meaningless.

[Anonymous]

Shut up and test your kids. Please put your energy into a more worthy cause.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shut up and test your kids. Please put your energy into a more worthy cause.

Yeah, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shut up and test your kids. Please put your energy into a more worthy cause.

Yeah, no.

No, you won't test your kids? Or you won't put energy into a more worth cause? Because it has been clear for a while they parents like you will not put energy into causes that better the system, just ones that benefit your own, already privileged child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shut up and test your kids. Please put your energy into a more worthy cause.

Yeah, no.

No, you won't test your kids? Or you won't put energy into a more worth cause? Because it has been clear for a while they parents like you will not put energy into causes that better the system, just ones that benefit your own, already privileged child.

DP. Nope. Not testing my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shut up and test your kids. Please put your energy into a more worthy cause.

Yeah, no.

No, you won't test your kids? Or you won't put energy into a more worth cause? Because it has been clear for a while they parents like you will not put energy into causes that better the system, just ones that benefit your own, already privileged child.

I probably won’t test him, and online bullying attempts won’t help. I test if he’s sick and he is vaccinated. That’s plenty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shut up and test your kids. Please put your energy into a more worthy cause.

Yeah, no.

No, you won't test your kids? Or you won't put energy into a more worth cause? Because it has been clear for a while they parents like you will not put energy into causes that better the system, just ones that benefit your own, already privileged child.

I probably won’t test him, and online bullying attempts won’t help. I test if he’s sick and he is vaccinated. That’s plenty.

As a teacher who wrote the previous message, I could care less if you test your child. As you have all been saying, it's theater and DCPS could care less about actually mitigating the spread of covid. What does bother me, however, is that everyone seems to care so much about this issue and the impact it has on black children in this city, without caring ONE BIT about the myriad of other issues that impact my students, because those don't impact your upper middle class children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shut up and test your kids. Please put your energy into a more worthy cause.

Yeah, no.

No, you won't test your kids? Or you won't put energy into a more worth cause? Because it has been clear for a while they parents like you will not put energy into causes that better the system, just ones that benefit your own, already privileged child.

I probably won’t test him, and online bullying attempts won’t help. I test if he’s sick and he is vaccinated. That’s plenty.

As a teacher who wrote the previous message, I could care less if you test your child. As you have all been saying, it's theater and DCPS could care less about actually mitigating the spread of covid. What does bother me, however, is that everyone seems to care so much about this issue and the impact it has on black children in this city, without caring ONE BIT about the myriad of other issues that impact my students, because those don't impact your upper middle class children.

I hear you but I think actually being in school is the sine qua non. So I’m comfortable advocating a rollback of vaccine and quarantine policies keeping black kids out of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shut up and test your kids. Please put your energy into a more worthy cause.

Yeah, no.

No, you won't test your kids? Or you won't put energy into a more worth cause? Because it has been clear for a while they parents like you will not put energy into causes that better the system, just ones that benefit your own, already privileged child.

I probably won’t test him, and online bullying attempts won’t help. I test if he’s sick and he is vaccinated. That’s plenty.

As a teacher who wrote the previous message, I could care less if you test your child. As you have all been saying, it's theater and DCPS could care less about actually mitigating the spread of covid. What does bother me, however, is that everyone seems to care so much about this issue and the impact it has on black children in this city, without caring ONE BIT about the myriad of other issues that impact my students, because those don't impact your upper middle class children.

You are the first person to bring up Black children in this thread, so I'm wondering what your motivation is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shut up and test your kids. Please put your energy into a more worthy cause.

Yeah, no.

No, you won't test your kids? Or you won't put energy into a more worth cause? Because it has been clear for a while they parents like you will not put energy into causes that better the system, just ones that benefit your own, already privileged child.

I probably won’t test him, and online bullying attempts won’t help. I test if he’s sick and he is vaccinated. That’s plenty.

As a teacher who wrote the previous message, I could care less if you test your child. As you have all been saying, it's theater and DCPS could care less about actually mitigating the spread of covid. What does bother me, however, is that everyone seems to care so much about this issue and the impact it has on black children in this city, without caring ONE BIT about the myriad of other issues that impact my students, because those don't impact your upper middle class children.

NP and I hear you but when you write comments like this you make it seem like there is no intersection between black and UMC in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

IMO, if everyone stopped playing their roles in this ongoing drama that has harmed kids, it would end.
So many other parts of the country have not had the histrionics about safety that DC has and they are fine.

[Anonymous]

DCPS got a special “not following CDC guidelines” in Emily Oster’s newsletter this morning. How embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS got a special “not following CDC guidelines” in Emily Oster’s newsletter this morning. How embarrassing.

TBH I’m ok with DCPS departing from CDC guidelines but their policies should be based on some intelligible principle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS got a special “not following CDC guidelines” in Emily Oster’s newsletter this morning. How embarrassing.

TBH I’m ok with DCPS departing from CDC guidelines but their policies should be based on some intelligible principle.

Oh no!! Not Emily Oster!!

[Anonymous]

I'm the PP who sent the note to our principal. I've also been in touch with the DCPS central office. It seems there is no decision yet on what will happen if families decline to participate in test to return.

I have thought long and hard about many of the points raised in the comments. It's a small thing, I agree. But I want a normal school year for my kids. I have a pit in my stomach that if this doesn't end now, it will never end.

There is strength in numbers. If you share my views, I encourage you to contact your principal, the Chancellor's office, and Deputy Mayor Kihn.