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Even at its best testing currently requires: an appointment with a health care provider/pediatrician to get swabbed (1 day out of school) and at least 3 days for them to send the test out to the lab, receive the result back, and contact you.  That is 4 days out of school for 1 test, and then really, if you have continuing symptoms, how do you know when to get re-tested?  If you have a cough that is NOT COVID, how do you know if you pick up a new cough that IS COVID?  Especially if the symptoms in kids are very mild.  And if you don't immediately quarantine at the slightest appearance of symptoms, how many people do the ones who have COVID infect before it gets "bad enough" to get tested?  It's a mess, and that is why the schools decision is so difficult.  Our elementary schools bring ~700 kids together every day.  Our middle schools more like 1000-1200; high schools up to 3000.  If there's any significant degree of COVID circulating when cold/flu season comes, there's going to be a LOT of missed school even if schools are open for "normal" in person instruction.  Because you don't know for at least 3-4 days if that cough is COVID or not.  And every time you develop a new/different symptom you should probably be re-testing and quarantined until you get the results.  Little kids get sick a lot.  They will miss a lot of school.  [/quote]

Schools open, with kids missing school when they're sick, is way better than schools closed.

I agree with the PP: the default assumption should be that schools will open, and the burden should be on people to demonstrate why they should not be open. Keeping in mind that the benefits of open schools and costs of closed schools are both huge.[/quote]

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