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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Based on what I'm reading here I see there's significant misinformation on the MCPS quarantine policy.

When an elementary school, unvaccinated kid is quarantined for being a close contact, the rule is that the kid will stay home for 10 days and monitor symptoms. No test is necessary. And 1, 2, 3 or 20 negative tests won't allow the kid to return to school sooner. My kid has been quarantined. We signed up for random testing at the beginning of the school year. The school also has rapid tests available. On the day my daughter was quarantined, they were doing random tests at the school. Surprising to us, she was sent home without being tested. Moreover, no testing is required at any point for the quarantined kids. Even more shocking is the fact that siblings of the quarantined kid are neither quarantined nor tested either. When our daughter was quarantined, we had to explicitly ask the school to include her in the pool of randomly tested kids. The PCR results, which were negative, took 2 days to arrive. Therefore, we also gave her a rapid test ourselves. Obviously, we wanted to know if she had COVID, and whether we had to isolate her from her siblings. However, per MCPS, this is not required. Responsible parents may do this regardless of MCPS' policy, but for those of you arguing that MCPS is doing a stellar job, I'd say that, per MCPS rules, my kid's twin sister could have potentially infected several kids at the school as well as their parents. It's a very absurd policy indeed.[/quote]

Why would a contact of a contact be expected to quarantine?  That scales to absurdity.

Quarantining does more harm than good. They should just to test-to-stay if they're that worried about cases. If even they to drop surveillance testing to free up resources to do it, it would still do more good and less bad than the current procedures and policies.[/quote]

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