Keep Healthy Kids in School - Don't Opt-In to APS' Surveillance Testing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Healthy kids don't test positive for covid. Therefore if they test positive they are sick and need to stay home. If you know your child is healthy, you wouldn't be afraid to test them as you know they will be negative.

Are you joking? Educate yourself, please.

You have yet to provide any single medical source stating children who test positive for Covid are considered “healthy” and need not quarantine. The AAP makes it very clear that any child testing positive for Covid, regardless of vaccination status or whether they are asymptomatic, must isolate and quarantine. These are standard public health measures.

The thought that some of you might intentionally send an infected child to school or out into the community is appalling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Healthy kids don't test positive for covid. Therefore if they test positive they are sick and need to stay home. If you know your child is healthy, you wouldn't be afraid to test them as you know they will be negative.

Are you joking? Educate yourself, please.

You have yet to provide any single medical source stating children who test positive for Covid are considered “healthy” and need not quarantine. The AAP makes it very clear that any child testing positive for Covid, regardless of vaccination status or whether they are asymptomatic, must isolate and quarantine. These are standard public health measures.

The thought that some of you might intentionally send an infected child to school or out into the community is appalling.

Do you test your child weekly for asymptomatic flu during flu season? If not, you're a morally reprehensible person.

[Anonymous]

Just a friendly reminder - those of you volunteering your children for surveillance testing, you are the rare ones. The last testing regime only had 18% opt-in, and from what I understand some of that was because athletes were required to do so.

APS families, let's keep it up! We want under 10% this time. Fairfax had only 100 out of 179K students. We can do better by keeping our % down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I signed up both of my kids for the testing program at the start of the school year. We’ve followed all of the requested protocols, and believed that APS would do their part, until given reason not to believe.

Both of my kids had symptoms that required staying home and testing at different points, and we were honest and followed the rules, believing that the work that they were missing in school would be fully accessible online and/or upon return to school, as promised. It wasn’t, for either. My junior missed two labs in an an AP science class, was not given an opportunity to make them up, and they tanked his grade until we went up the chain of command to get the situation rectified. That took over a month. Other classes also presented significant obstacles to accessing missed material and/or making up missed graded material.

My middle schooler missed a test while out awaiting test results and was given a sliver of time in an advisory period to make it up. She’s a fast and accurate test taker but could only complete half of the test. Another grade hit for a stellar student who did nothing wrong.

Both kids are fully vaccinated now, and we’re not signing up with the new testing vendor. If my kids are significantly symptomatic we’ll keep them home and accept the work makeup struggle. I’m not having them tested as long as they’re asymptomatic. APS shouldn’t make empty promises if it wants parents to choose to comply with this increasingly dubious program.

LOL!!!! Aww and you were such the little perfect Covid parent.

I just can’t muster up any sympathy for your situation. You got what you deserved for being so self righteous.

DP. What a strange post. You are actually taking glee in two kids getting hurt academically by APS’s refusal to follow its own policies because you want to stick it to their parent for making a decision union you disagree with (but that is fully within their rights to make)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Healthy kids don't test positive for covid. Therefore if they test positive they are sick and need to stay home. If you know your child is healthy, you wouldn't be afraid to test them as you know they will be negative.

Are you joking? Educate yourself, please.

Right back at you. People who have COVID-19 are not “healthy” whether they have symptoms or not.

Testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus is not the same as “having Covid 19.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Healthy kids don't test positive for covid. Therefore if they test positive they are sick and need to stay home. If you know your child is healthy, you wouldn't be afraid to test them as you know they will be negative.

Are you joking? Educate yourself, please.

You have yet to provide any single medical source stating children who test positive for Covid are considered “healthy” and need not quarantine. The AAP makes it very clear that any child testing positive for Covid, regardless of vaccination status or whether they are asymptomatic, must isolate and quarantine. These are standard public health measures.

The thought that some of you might intentionally send an infected child to school or out into the community is appalling.

Unless you are testing daily then you, too, “might intentionally send an infected child to school or out into the community.” How appalling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Healthy kids don't test positive for covid. Therefore if they test positive they are sick and need to stay home. If you know your child is healthy, you wouldn't be afraid to test them as you know they will be negative.

Are you joking? Educate yourself, please.

You have yet to provide any single medical source stating children who test positive for Covid are considered “healthy” and need not quarantine. The AAP makes it very clear that any child testing positive for Covid, regardless of vaccination status or whether they are asymptomatic, must isolate and quarantine. These are standard public health measures.

The thought that some of you might intentionally send an infected child to school or out into the community is appalling.

Do you test your child weekly for asymptomatic flu during flu season? If not, you're a morally reprehensible person.

Ah yes, here you go again with the flu as a red herring.

"With COVID, there can be people who are completely asymptomatic who can infect other people. So, you can infect people with the flu before you’re symptomatic, but there really aren’t asymptomatic carriers of the flu”
-UNC Health Care Chief Medical Officer Dr. David Ellis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I signed up both of my kids for the testing program at the start of the school year. We’ve followed all of the requested protocols, and believed that APS would do their part, until given reason not to believe.

Both of my kids had symptoms that required staying home and testing at different points, and we were honest and followed the rules, believing that the work that they were missing in school would be fully accessible online and/or upon return to school, as promised. It wasn’t, for either. My junior missed two labs in an an AP science class, was not given an opportunity to make them up, and they tanked his grade until we went up the chain of command to get the situation rectified. That took over a month. Other classes also presented significant obstacles to accessing missed material and/or making up missed graded material.

My middle schooler missed a test while out awaiting test results and was given a sliver of time in an advisory period to make it up. She’s a fast and accurate test taker but could only complete half of the test. Another grade hit for a stellar student who did nothing wrong.

Both kids are fully vaccinated now, and we’re not signing up with the new testing vendor. If my kids are significantly symptomatic we’ll keep them home and accept the work makeup struggle. I’m not having them tested as long as they’re asymptomatic. APS shouldn’t make empty promises if it wants parents to choose to comply with this increasingly dubious program.

LOL!!!! Aww and you were such the little perfect Covid parent.

I just can’t muster up any sympathy for your situation. You got what you deserved for being so self righteous.

“Self righteous”? How?

Never mind. Your definition is surely meaningless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just a friendly reminder - those of you volunteering your children for surveillance testing, you are the rare ones. The last testing regime only had 18% opt-in, and from what I understand some of that was because athletes were required to do so.

APS families, let's keep it up! We want under 10% this time. Fairfax had only 100 out of 179K students. We can do better by keeping our % down.

I think that will be easy to achieve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a friendly reminder - those of you volunteering your children for surveillance testing, you are the rare ones. The last testing regime only had 18% opt-in, and from what I understand some of that was because athletes were required to do so.

APS families, let's keep it up! We want under 10% this time. Fairfax had only 100 out of 179K students. We can do better by keeping our % down.

I think that will be easy to achieve.

Impressive commitment by posters to cheer a lack of testing for no good reason beyond that it seems to assuage their anger about something that most likely has little to do with a voluntary, opt-in, free testing program that doesn't impact anyone. Not sure who or what they're trying to dunk on, though. But it seems to make the posters feel better, so that's a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a friendly reminder - those of you volunteering your children for surveillance testing, you are the rare ones. The last testing regime only had 18% opt-in, and from what I understand some of that was because athletes were required to do so.

APS families, let's keep it up! We want under 10% this time. Fairfax had only 100 out of 179K students. We can do better by keeping our % down.

I think that will be easy to achieve.

Impressive commitment by posters to cheer a lack of testing for no good reason beyond that it seems to assuage their anger about something that most likely has little to do with a voluntary, opt-in, free testing program that doesn't impact anyone. Not sure who or what they're trying to dunk on, though. But it seems to make the posters feel better, so that's a good thing.

DP. With Resource Path, the lack of transparency on how their algorithm would avoid false identification of students where a pool test threw a positive result left me uncomfortable with the reliability of their testing methodology. Has the new company provided more clarity on their testing procedures?

[Anonymous]

Remember how last year people were pointing at private schools offering more in-person instruction and saying APS should follow their lead?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I signed up both of my kids for the testing program at the start of the school year. We’ve followed all of the requested protocols, and believed that APS would do their part, until given reason not to believe.

Both of my kids had symptoms that required staying home and testing at different points, and we were honest and followed the rules, believing that the work that they were missing in school would be fully accessible online and/or upon return to school, as promised. It wasn’t, for either. My junior missed two labs in an an AP science class, was not given an opportunity to make them up, and they tanked his grade until we went up the chain of command to get the situation rectified. That took over a month. Other classes also presented significant obstacles to accessing missed material and/or making up missed graded material.

My middle schooler missed a test while out awaiting test results and was given a sliver of time in an advisory period to make it up. She’s a fast and accurate test taker but could only complete half of the test. Another grade hit for a stellar student who did nothing wrong.

Both kids are fully vaccinated now, and we’re not signing up with the new testing vendor. If my kids are significantly symptomatic we’ll keep them home and accept the work makeup struggle. I’m not having them tested as long as they’re asymptomatic. APS shouldn’t make empty promises if it wants parents to choose to comply with this increasingly dubious program.

LOL!!!! Aww and you were such the little perfect Covid parent.

I just can’t muster up any sympathy for your situation. You got what you deserved for being so self righteous.

DP. What a strange post. You are actually taking glee in two kids getting hurt academically by APS’s refusal to follow its own policies because you want to stick it to their parent for making a decision union you disagree with (but that is fully within their rights to make)?

Nope, APS didn't hurt these students, their parents did. Their parents made poor choices and it hurt their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I signed up both of my kids for the testing program at the start of the school year. We’ve followed all of the requested protocols, and believed that APS would do their part, until given reason not to believe.

Both of my kids had symptoms that required staying home and testing at different points, and we were honest and followed the rules, believing that the work that they were missing in school would be fully accessible online and/or upon return to school, as promised. It wasn’t, for either. My junior missed two labs in an an AP science class, was not given an opportunity to make them up, and they tanked his grade until we went up the chain of command to get the situation rectified. That took over a month. Other classes also presented significant obstacles to accessing missed material and/or making up missed graded material.

My middle schooler missed a test while out awaiting test results and was given a sliver of time in an advisory period to make it up. She’s a fast and accurate test taker but could only complete half of the test. Another grade hit for a stellar student who did nothing wrong.

Both kids are fully vaccinated now, and we’re not signing up with the new testing vendor. If my kids are significantly symptomatic we’ll keep them home and accept the work makeup struggle. I’m not having them tested as long as they’re asymptomatic. APS shouldn’t make empty promises if it wants parents to choose to comply with this increasingly dubious program.

LOL!!!! Aww and you were such the little perfect Covid parent.

I just can’t muster up any sympathy for your situation. You got what you deserved for being so self righteous.

DP. What a strange post. You are actually taking glee in two kids getting hurt academically by APS’s refusal to follow its own policies because you want to stick it to their parent for making a decision union you disagree with (but that is fully within their rights to make)?

Nope, APS didn't hurt these students, their parents did. Their parents made poor choices and it hurt their kids.

Gmafb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember how last year people were pointing at private schools offering more in-person instruction and saying APS should follow their lead?

Yup. Look at all of those private schools looking at going virtual now.