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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I class is sent home until getting a negative test on their own. Let's say that takes 2 days, comes back and 3 days later another kid has a "bad headache " back home again but there's a project at work so this time it takes 3 days to go get the test then back again until a week and a half later someone eats the cafeteria food and has diarrhea so now you're out again for another day.

What a sh"tshow[/quote]

ok - so what do you propose?  No class?  No quarantine ever? Only the child that is sick gets sent home (one after another after another -until the entire class is sent home sequentially and the spread continues?  What?[/quote]

Test to stay like Boston (and probably many many other schools are doing)

I'm not sure what MCPS has against using the testing that's been provided by the federal government but irs causing much risk and disruption to not use it.

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They don't want to know.[/quote]

Right. They just want to send them home.

Just do rapid antigen tests as often as you can, and send home anyone positive while keeping everyone that tested negative. Once a classroom crosses a certain threshold of concurrent cases (3-5), shut down the room for 10 days.[/quote]

Majority of parents aren't agreeing to testing so their only option is to send kids home.[/quote]

At the very least, they could send the symptomatic kid home and allow others in the room to stay after a negative rapid antigen test. If your child is in the room and you refuse the test, then your child could get sent home too.

The key point is that we absolutely do not need to send everyone home when there's a positive test or a symptomic kid. We're going to be dealing with COVID for a long time. This is not an appropriate or sustainable plan. It's so bad that it only makes sense in the context of trying to force a closure of the district as a whole.[/quote]

No, because if those other kids are asymptomatic, they could have a huge spread.  Parents need to be responsible.  If your child is sick keep them home.[/quote]

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