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The policy is reasonable.

1. When a child presents himself with any symptom, there is no way to rule out covid. It might be just sniffles but there is nothing to tell you that it is not covid. 
2. So err on side of caution for the greater good. Send everyone home. Have the kid who showed symptoms prove, with a negative test, that it is not COVID, and then resume normal classes. 
3. If the kid does turn out to be covid positive, then you have pre-emptively reduced the risk of all his classmates getting infected.

Bottomline: parents dont send your kids with symptoms to school. If you do and LARLA complains, YOU are the reason 25 other kids are being forced to get their kids out of school.

Now an opinion: 
YOU are the problem because you are selfish. Stop treating school like daycare that watches over your kid. Kids are remarkably resilient behaviorally and will cope with zoom, just as they have coped with masks or pizza every friday night.

Its you who needs to change your attitude: have some responsibility, some COMMUNAL responsibility for heavens sake. Otherwise folks like you (who send sick kids to school) should be ostracized by society. You selfish stupid people can GFY! 
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Why do you need to completely rule out COVID? Approach mitigations looking for the biggest benefits with the smallest costs. Quarantining a classful of kids has a terrible cost-benefit analysis. That would go against the CDC guidance even if they tested positive. The idea of quarantining students *before* a positive test makes it all the more ridiculous.[/quote]

Do the cost benefit analysis when your kid is a statistic....[/quote]

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