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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Priority #1 is getting rid of quarantines. 
For me, priority #2 is staffing up special ed and support staff. They are so burned out - and gaps there will make it hard to catch kids up. 
#3 is ensuring the kids that missed all or part of K and 1st can read - however that happens. 
#4 is encouraging kids that missed all or part of junior/senior year to enroll in college or finish HS if they dropped out. [/quote]

I think #1 is important for kids, families, and teachers.  I can't imagine it is good for classroom continuity that kids are in and out for weeks at a time.  I'd imagine that might somehow get weighted into teachers' assessments, too, such that they don't like them.

But to end quarantines we'd have to accept covid as an illness like any other that we do not quarantine for.  Is that even remotely possible?[/quote]

Right now, only unvaccinated kids quarantine. We can institute test to stay.[/quote]

Yes, you are correct.  That hadn't occurred to me for unknown reasons.  TTS for unvaccinated kids would make sense.

But if we are trying to do sane things in the future, then we have to acknowledge that it makes no sense to distinguish the vaccinated from the unvaccinated, in terms of exposure.  Add to that, masks seem to do jack all for transmission in schools (and they aren't coming back, anyway, aside from the charters).  TTS requires knowing who was exposed, but it's sort of useless to contact trace in high schools, and in most schools, no?  So you'd have to TTS everyone in the entire school whenever there's a case, meaning all of the time.

Now I've talked myself into believing that TTS isn't a good, rational solution, particularly since it has costs (not just the tests themselves, but also the time in tracking, etc.)[/quote]

I think by the end of the year they were just saying all unvaccinated kids unmasked in a classroom with a case had to quarantine. so basically very little contact tracing.

Oh and can we get rid of the stupid daily entry chart?[/quote]

Yes, I know that's what they were doing.  But separating the vaxxed and the unvaxxed doesn't makes sense any more, since we see that the vaccines don't do much to limit transmission among school-age kids.  So if we acknowledge this very real fact, then everyone is a close contact of everyone in a class, and at most schools that doesn't even make sense, since kids don't stay with their same cohort all day.  Ergo, everyone has to TTS?

Agree that the daily entry chart is pure theater and needs to end.  [/quote]

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