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   [quote]     Anonymous wrote:
        True. I bet some parents don't ever want to know if their kid ever becomes positive asymptomatically. It will interrupt their workday for eight long days.

This exact sentiment was expressed in the YHS parent sports meeting. Parent did not want to opt in to the sports testing because if his kid tested positive, kid would have to miss school. [b]Unbelievable![/b][/quote]

Nope! Parents have been sending sick kids to school for years. This is exactly why teachers were afraid to return to the classroom way back before vaccinations were available.
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I was on that call for YHS sports.  To be fair, I thought he had a valid point that I hadn't thought of previously and didn't take it as he didn't want to be inconvenienced by a sick kid. First this is HS - parents aren't inconvenienced by a kid missing school because most HS kids stay home without parents. The point he and at least one other parent made was that for an asymptomatic, vaccinated student who would not otherwise have been tested and wouldn't have missed school, the athlete testing program now puts them in a position of having to miss school for a stretch when they wouldn't have if they were a non-athlete.  Because only athletes are going to be tested every day and I would bet most HS students are not going to opt in to even weekly testing.  With delta you will presumably have lots of students without symptoms, but carrying the virus, attending school, because they had no reason to go seek a test and find out they are positive.  it's harder to miss school and make up the work at this age.  [/quote]

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