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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, the whole point of hybrid was to make sure the buildings aren't more than half full. I don't care if some schools opted back 80%. That's totally fine, why are we worried about this? [b]Also I don't care about testing.[/b] I care about masks and ventilation. That's the recipe that is working for local private schools.

The Catholic school near me has 100% of students in 5 days a week. Kids are 3 ft apart not 6 ft (they got a waiver). There have been cases in the school but [b]no spread in the school[/b]. Kids wear masks, classrooms have HEPA filters, and the split the kids at lunch time to have fewer in the classroom while eating. Again, no school spread. School has to quarantine classrooms a few times and even shut the whole school down for a week twice, but those kids have been in school 90% of the days of this school year so far, vs. APS kids who have been in school 0%.

And as someone above said, why would I believe APS will open 5 days a week in the fall? I hope they do, but I don't believe it at this point. I don't even think they will get my HS kid back anytime soon.

But I will take it. Any amount of time they are open, my kid will be there.[/quote]

How do they know there hasn't been spread? Was the whole school tested before returning?

We have friends at multiple private schools - testing has been key. 
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Because the school has been very transparent. When they have a case in a classroom, that whole classroom goes home for two weeks. And none of those other kids have gotten sick. This has happened 4-5 times now.

Not every kid has been tested, but I know many parents in affected classes did test their kid to be safe, and none of them have gotten sick.

To me, it stretches credibility to assume that it's silently spreading in open Catholic schools with no symptomatic kids. If it was spreading, there would be kids with symptoms. So no, I don't think you need to wait for universal testing to open. Most schools around the country that are open are not doing that.

I'm from a red state with open schools and all they are doing as far as I can tell is masks and there are still [u]no huge outbreaks[/u] there, either. I know because my nieces and nephews are in these schools. In-person. Learning. And doing extra curricular activities.[/quote]

But they certainly can't claim "no school spread" if they aren't testing.

How many outbreaks? Which school systems are these?

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