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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still need more specifics to make a decision.

When are kids pulled from class and who is doing the testing for little kids?  That info is not on the website, at least not yet or that I can find.[/quote]

They said at lunchtime and I believe they said that only older kids do it themselves. (From the AEM thread) 
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This is terrible protocol. Children need to be tested before they enter the school. At lunchtime, they have had time to become a close contact to many others.[/quote]

It's surveillance testing.  It honestly doesn't matter what time of day it happens from a covid perspective.

But I am unsure about opting in because I am someone who has already had the horrible disruption of a FALSE positive rapid test.  I would be fine opting into Thursday PCR testing where the results came back Sunday before school on Monday.  But I don't want a false positive disrupting our lives because we've done that once and it SUCKED.  [/quote]

All positive rapid tests are immediately given a PCR test to weed out false positives, so if the first test is in fact a false positive, kid only misses 1-2 days of school[/quote]

Considering how few full weeks of school we have this year, 2-4 days (which is the reality of a PCR test) often means and entire week of school missed.

Again: if they require it of everyone, that's fine.  If they would change it to PCR testing, fine.  But I'm not having my kid pulled out of class, when most others aren't being tested, to risk getting quarantined for no reason because of a shitty testing system.

They should be doing pooled PCR testing every Thursday.  Run each class together, make it mandatory.  When a class pops up with a positive, test the whole class.  With PCRs.

I just think rapid tests aren't helpful here.[/quote]
I actually think that the rapid tests would be helpful if:
1) Everyone were being tested
2) Quarantine the child(ren) who tests positive
3) Provide daily testing to the close contacts and siblings so that they can stay in school as long as they continue to test (-)

I fear that there will be children who may end up losing many weeks of school because of multiple instances of close contact in the classroom and/or from a sibling.  If this were not coming off of 1.5 years of inadequate schooling, it would be fine.  But now?  With the kids being as behind as they are?  We should be making every effort to keep them IN school as long as they are covid (-).  Covid tests are so inexpensive, there is no reason that we can't maximize use of them to keep healthy kids in school.
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