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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to be [i]that person[/i], but if DCPS had chosen to be virtual the first week back (like many many people advocated for), kids would have gotten 5 days of instruction. Which appears to be better than this mess of a week we were left with. [/quote]

Disagree. I'd rather have no school and do things with my kids on my own schedule than useless virtual instruction.[/quote]

Don't you think the whole rapid test to return plan has turned out to be a complete waste of time and money? [b]The results are now null and void.[/b][/quote]

I don't understand this point at all.  The results were going to be null and void the minute we let kids and parents go home to their communities yesterday.  They were just a snapshot in time.  Nothing more and were never going to be anything more.  [/quote]

Man. So that was most of a week lost, two days of distribution, tons of money, stress for teachers and parents picking up and uploading these things, for a snapshot of Covid at our schools that was only valid for less than 8 hours. Not worth it. [/quote]

Disagree. Prior to that exercise it had appeared that omicron was even more prevalent in the community.  It was good to get an idea of the level of asymptomatic infection.[/quote]

This isn't a good dataset for that purpose, and making children suffer for that is ridiculous. If DC really wanted an accurate picture of the situation, there are better and more accurate ways to accomplish this with the weight of the burden spread across adults, not children.[/quote]

No there isn't.  Universal is always better than targeted sampling because it doesn't rely on any subjective assumptions.  It is beyond absurd to claim that targeted sampling is better data than universal.  The reason targeted sampling is note often used is logistical and resource based not data efficacy based.

No kids suffered. Two days extra break is nothing and is as minimal as something can get. Nothing usually gets done during those days anyway.

It wasn't burdensome.  The process was easy and went smoothly.  Easy to pick up the kits.  Easy to take the test. And easy to upload the result.  DCPS, suprisingly, did a great job pulling this off.

Lastly, it was very good news that prevalence was only 5% for students and 7% for staff.  That is way less than was, wrongly, assumed based on the non-universal samplings we had.[/quote]

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