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Testing should NOT be optional. Every one, regardless of vaccinated status, should be tested every single week during the school year, and failing that, should not be admitted to school until a negative PCR test can be provided.

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Nope. That's not the policy. Many of us are opting out. [/quote]

Why are you opting out?[/quote]

Its a waste. Kids are essentially at zero risk. 170,000 kids in DC and zero deaths. It's a waste of time. [/quote]

It’s not a waste at all.  Knowing if your child is positive helps you avoid breakthrough Covid.[/quote]

DP. How so? I’m not going to exile my kid from the house. I’m vaccinated and not worried about severe illness.[/quote]

Just because you won’t have severe illness doesn’t mean you — and the rest of your family — won’t have moderate cases.  It’s pretty disruptive for a bunch of people to get sick.[/quote]

Oh, you mean like when we had the flu or norovirus? For which we never quarantined anybody? I wish we quarantined kids for norovirus, it’s so much nastier than a Covid breakthrough infection in a healthy adult is likely to be.

That said, I’m not opting out of testing, but the idea that I would avoid a breakthrough infection because I know my kid is an asymptomatic positive doesn’t factor into that decision.[/quote]

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