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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The color-coded system based on self-reported data is complete garbage. I’m an open-schooler but agree there are two scenarios to go virtual. Number 1 they are missing too many staff. In that case go virtual only as long as necessary until you get staff back. Maybe that’s 4 days maybe it’s 10. It will be school specific. Second, there may be concerning outbreaks at some schools (cough sports teams). In that case send the team home, or send the grade home, or if it crosses grades maybe on the advice of the health department close the school. It doesn’t need to be 14 days though. 5 days then test to return would be fine. These second scenarios should be rarer. The color system is a blunt instrument based on bad data. No scientist would support decisions being made as important as whether to close a school based on such garbage data. [/quote]

Garbage data and the baseline should be 0 cases starting this morning not the positives over break.[/quote]

I agree--it seems like some 22 year old came up with this idea without thinking through the real world impacts of closing a school down. how this impacts the kids, the parents, their well-being. this isn't a decision to take lightly and and these percentages are crap and the timeline is crap.  They clearly aren't taking into account cases that are rolling off of isolation. my kid's school is sitting at 4.85%. with today's data release, i would expect to see a net change as other cases move out of isolation, but i'm not hopeful they're thinking that through, so we'll be red tomorrow and my kid will be home for some unknown amount of time (bc we know it's not going to be two weeks). and then when we blink yellow again, what if we turn red again two days later--we all go home again for another 14 days? who came up with this insanity?  [/quote]

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