Schools closed January 3 and 4

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All this does is give traveling families plenty of time now to adjust and stay longer. It doesn’t mean people will come home and sit at home and see if they get covid.

More bat sh** crazy not based on anything rational policy.

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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.

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.

I'm truly sorry that you tested positive, but this is likely just life going forward. We can't keep shutting down schools particularly with vaccines having widespread availability. Assuming you are vaxxed you should be fine (and don't need to quarantine though I understand you may want to).

Are you saying a teacher who had tested positive should not quarantine?

[Anonymous]

I don’t like this but I’ll take it over two weeks virtual in January. It feels like some stupid toothless compromise with the Union, but who knows how these people make decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait if there’s no requirement of a negative test to return, then what is the point of canceling school for 2 days??

Distribution/testing days. Could you imagine the uproar if it was required?! The antivaxx crowd and the anti mask crowds would be near riot.

Right. And you know the antivax crowd/others who are just over it all will not be engaging in this testing. This will all yet again fall on the vaxxed people who have been doing as they’re told this whole time (and those families were likely to be rapid testing at home after being in groups/traveling anyway). This is a whole huge logistical nightmare that once again burdens kids because we have chosen schools as our scape goat for community spread while the bars, restaurants, theaters, and so forth stay open.

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Anonymous wrote:All this does is give traveling families plenty of time now to adjust and stay longer. It doesn’t mean people will come home and sit at home and see if they get covid.

More bat sh** crazy not based on anything rational policy.

Huh? Actually, it's a great idea. It's about knowing whether you have COVID or not. It doesn't matter whether you're at home or on a trip a few days longer. It's about taking a test to see if you're positive for COVID. IF you are, then you don't come to school to spread it.

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Anonymous wrote:All this does is give traveling families plenty of time now to adjust and stay longer. It doesn’t mean people will come home and sit at home and see if they get covid.

More bat sh** crazy not based on anything rational policy.

Huh? Actually, it's a great idea. It's about knowing whether you have COVID or not. It doesn't matter whether you're at home or on a trip a few days longer. It's about taking a test to see if you're positive for COVID. IF you are, then you don't come to school to spread it.

The tests aren’t required. So again, this serves no purpose and if someone extends their trip to 1/4, they aren’t showing up positive the next morning on a test anyway, even if the test was required.

[Anonymous]

I’ll likely be putting my kids in back up care. This is all so pointless.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll likely be putting my kids in back up care. This is all so pointless.

..huh? because that will make them safe from covid at schools?

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll likely be putting my kids in back up care. This is all so pointless.

..huh? because that will make them safe from covid at schools?

Oh the opposite. Because school is closed. They will still intermingle with kids and teachers.

[Anonymous]

Well, at least charters can have different policies. E.g., my charter is requiring a negative PCR before coming back to school on Jan. 4. And they've already got protocols to report it. This maybe makes it easier for charter kids because there will be more tests available (via the libraries).

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll likely be putting my kids in back up care. This is all so pointless.

..huh? because that will make them safe from covid at schools?

Oh the opposite. Because school is closed. They will still intermingle with kids and teachers.

Eh, I'm sure that this will catch some cases that would not have been caught before. I don't know that it'll make a huge dent in DCPS's ability to maintain being open, but it's something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, at least charters can have different policies. E.g., my charter is requiring a negative PCR before coming back to school on Jan. 4. And they've already got protocols to report it. This maybe makes it easier for charter kids because there will be more tests available (via the libraries).

That’s amazing! Which charter is being so sensible?

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll likely be putting my kids in back up care. This is all so pointless.

..huh? because that will make them safe from covid at schools?

Oh the opposite. Because school is closed. They will still intermingle with kids and teachers.

And now they’re intermingling with a different group of kids and teachers. Or people will be asking relatives (some elderly) to provide childcare. Because many parents have to go to work and have already stretched themselves with time off over the winter break. The backup nanny class will be just fine, but the rest can eat cake.

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I'm truly sorry that you tested positive, but this is likely just life going forward. We can't keep shutting down schools particularly with vaccines having widespread availability. Assuming you are vaxxed you should be fine (and don't need to quarantine though I understand you may want to).

What kind of batshit crazy "advice" is this? OF COURSE you need to quarantine if you tested positive. JEEZ.

Do people actually think you shouldn't quarantine if you test positive?? Please help keep our community safe and quarantine if you test positive (also stay home if you are sick as a general rule).

Also, while the risk may be low if you are vaxxed, there still IS a risk.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll likely be putting my kids in back up care. This is all so pointless.

..huh? because that will make them safe from covid at schools?

Oh the opposite. Because school is closed. They will still intermingle with kids and teachers.

And now they’re intermingling with a different group of kids and teachers. Or people will be asking relatives (some elderly) to provide childcare. Because many parents have to go to work and have already stretched themselves with time off over the winter break. The backup nanny class will be just fine, but the rest can eat cake.

Yes that’s the problem, if we mean the same thing. They will catch cases but generate new ones by forcing people into less desirable childcare solutions. These kids aren’t quarantining. School is the safest place for children.