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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]

It doesn't matter what time of day.

And let's err on the side of having a few false positives (which are rare) and keep our kids in school.

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They aren’t that accurate with a rapid test when you are testing kids without symptoms. It’s about 2%. Thats 2 a week of you are testing 100 kids. It’s not insignificant. [/quote]

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