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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Negative for my three kids. I have to wonder what good this serves. There’s no tracking, no mandate that parents use the tests, no requirement that you have proof of a negative test before walking in the door tomorrow.

Just a waste of resources and a grand gesture of nothing.[/quote]

The issue is it requires parents to, I don’t know, be responsible?? We are literally giving every single student a free test and asking their adult to report. I agree many won’t do it but that isn’t really a failure on mcps’s part. And don’t take that as excusing mcps for its many, many errors in the last week. This just isn’t one of them.

I would prefer if everyone who didn’t report test results not be allowed back in school but that’s not the route they took.[/quote]

The problem is that the tests aren't particularly sensitive in asymptomatic individuals. So it will be good if it flags some kids with very mild symptoms they were ignoring, that's bettr than nothing, but required pcr ought to be the way to go here. Of course, it would probably take a month to organize testing for all that.

I can't believe 2 years into the pandemic we are still hung up on testing shortages and limitations. [/quote]

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