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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not in your district, but based on my experience I do not trust schools to be rational. Here is what happened to us: We did a rapid test at home because my teen woke up lethargic, clammy, and seemed flushed. No fever but clearly under the weather. To our shock, the rapid test came back positive. We immediately alerted the school, trying to be good citizens. An hour later we did another rapid that came back negative. We also scheduled PCRs for my kid and the rest of the family. Everything came back negative. My kid never got a fever and was fine by the next morning. My kid's pediatrician said it was a false positive. The help line for the rapid test said it was a false positive. My kid had three negative PCRs total. No other symptoms. Our entire house is vaccinated and the people who can be are boosted.

But the school said that it was a covid positive, refused to reconsider, and forced a 10 day quarantine, without any real support for virtual learning or catching up. So my teen, who is taking a heavy course load, lost ten days of classroom work coming up to finals and will likely end the semester with worse grades. All because I was honest and shared the positive rapid test. I feel awful about it, and certainly will never share a non-PCR test result again.

I just don't trust the schools to be rational. I've since heard of this happening to other families too. So, some schools treat a rapid like a PCR for purposes of excluding a vaccinated child even with multiple negative PCRs, but would never allow a rapid to be allowed to clear a child. It's wholly irrational behavior and I personally will never allow routine testing going forward because I don't feel I can trust the school to be rational with the results of routine testing.[/quote]

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