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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Priority #1 is getting rid of quarantines. 
For me, priority #2 is staffing up special ed and support staff. They are so burned out - and gaps there will make it hard to catch kids up. 
#3 is ensuring the kids that missed all or part of K and 1st can read - however that happens. 
#4 is encouraging kids that missed all or part of junior/senior year to enroll in college or finish HS if they dropped out. [/quote]

I think #1 is important for kids, families, and teachers.  I can't imagine it is good for classroom continuity that kids are in and out for weeks at a time.  I'd imagine that might somehow get weighted into teachers' assessments, too, such that they don't like them.

But to end quarantines we'd have to accept covid as an illness like any other that we do not quarantine for.  Is that even remotely possible?[/quote]

Right now, only unvaccinated kids quarantine. We can institute test to stay.[/quote]

How many vaccinated and unvaccinated kids in quarantine go on to test positive for Covid from their exposure? Very few. Massachusetts did test to stay last year. Only 1-2 % of close contacts tested positive for covid and most of those cases were during surges, therefore they could not conclude that they were indicative of transmission in school. 98-99% of kids being monitored did not get Covid. 
They ended the program because it is not cost effective.. They will not be quarantining close contacts regardless of vaccine status next year. DC should do the same. Sending healthy kids home and denying them school  should not be allowed again.
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that’s good info! [/quote]

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