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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right.   We need to be able to do both at once.  If schools aren’t able to pivot to virtual, either for entire classrooms or individual students who need to quarantine (because they are positive, they live with someone who is positive, etc), our choice is allowing these kids to continue to being covid to their classmates or for them to experience guaranteed learning loss.  Especially with all we invested in DL last year, we shouldn’t be facing this choice.

It very much seems that there would be plenty of “demand” for virtual classrooms next year, both from parents uncomfortable sending their unvaxed kids during delta, and kids who should be isolating.  [/quote]

The answer is NOT to demand virtual, but to demand mandatory vaccination of staff/teachers, and to use rational quarantine policies that exclude the fewest kids possible- for example by rapid testing every day instead of sending them home. [/quote]

The flaw with this plan is that testing is an opt-in and [b]as detailed in the travel threads, lots of parents will refuse to opt in so they can travel without having to quarantine etc.[/b] There’s no way to make medical testing for kids mandatory, and I’ve harped on this before, there’s the religious exemption loophole so even when vaccines are available for all age groups, there will be parents who opt out.[/quote]

You have really poor reading comprehension if you think that is anyone’s argument for opting out of surveillance testing. The two (travel quarantines and surveillance testing) have nothing to do with each other. [/quote]

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