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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the OP. Thank you for the thoughtful responses and perspectives. You’ve given me a lot to think about. I agree with the posters who note the impact of quarantine on kids who’ve already suffered from lack of in person school (my son included) and yet face being pulled out of school for symptoms less severe than other diseases that don’t require draconian quarantine.

Will also note that the asynchronous learning my son had this week - a module of reading and a model of math - was hardly a substitute for any of the content he’d be doing in his class. DH and I added some content and activities but if he were out for more than a week and/or was already behind it would be disastrous for his learning.

It will be interesting to see if the county / public health officials update the guidance for cases where symptoms are so light. I’m going to withdraw my kids from the testing pool next year if the Covid variants continue to be so mild for vaccinated people. I’m not sending a clearly sick kid with a fever and heavy cough to school, or sending a child with no appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, etc. But the flip of it is I’m not keeping my very healthy child who has been symptom free for 48 hours home. I’m done. [/quote]

I'm with you.[/quote]

They should make in-person school require parents to sign a testing waiver. If they want to opt-out their kids can attend the virtual academy.[/quote]

With an attitude like that, I’m sure you either don’t have kids or, if you do, they’re in VA. So what do you care? The majority of responses here say they’re comfortable accepting a slightly higher risk of Covid in order to minimize disruptions at school.[/quote]

No I just don't feel everyone else should be put at risk because of selfish people who don't care about others.[/quote]

Well, your feelings are irrelevant. They're not going to implement a mandatory testing framework. So, continue pouting here if it helps.[/quote]

I wonder how much longer they’ll even do surveillance testing at schools. Have they made any clear statements about the fall? It seems like such a waste of money.[/quote]

It is an insane waste of money!  Probably federal funding being used for this?[/quote]

Presumably ESSR funds are being used for testing. But that’s still money that could be going to other programs/purposes. MCPS is going to have a hard time keeping things like VA running when ESSR funds run out. They also haven’t yet shifted ongoing maintenance costs for computers/devices out of ESSR. They know they’re going to have to, but they haven’t described what they’re going to cut to do it.[/quote]

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