Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

+1.

Anonymous wrote:Our school always communicates when there’s a positive test (student or staff), so I was thinking that meant there weren’t any positive results in the return to school testing.

Our school provides alerts when school is in session but we didn’t get any notices about positives during the break, though I have no doubt there were several.

Anonymous wrote:Our school tested all teachers/staff as well as students. It was shared that ~26% of the teachers are now quarantined and/or isolating. They are trying to carry on and open.

What were the positives, not the exposures?

Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

So you’re basically suggesting students and teachers go to school even if positive and infectious? Just pretend it’s not going to spread exponentially at school and in the community?

You talk about critically thinking but don’t want the actual testing data from the school?

SSSAS held a required community testing on Sunday and had a bit over 1200 people tested (students and faculty). The smaller amount of tests scheduled for Monday had to be cancelled because of snow I think. Out of the 1200 or so that got tested on Sunday, 135 tested positive, so we are at 11% positivity. We are in virtual learning for the week as a result and the whole community is doing another testing event tomorrow. We’ll see…

Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Any more estimates for staff?

Anonymous wrote:Landon just sent out a note. It turns out things are not that bad. School is back tomorrow! There were positives both from testing and kids still quarantining from over break but way better than I thought it would be. Vaccines must have helped. The school had vaccine clinic for everyone including family. Really made it easy.

Did they give a percentile? I'm curious about the percentiles! I wonder why they differ so much from school to school.

Landon just sent out a note. It turns out things are not that bad. School is back tomorrow! There were positives both from testing and kids still quarantining from over break but way better than I thought it would be. Vaccines must have helped. The school had vaccine clinic for everyone including family. Really made it easy.

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Anonymous wrote:Maret reported the numbers and it was very high.

I thought they tested today

Maret was 3.5% which is “high”, but low compared to all the other stats mentioned on this thread

Anonymous wrote:Our school always communicates when there’s a positive test (student or staff), so I was thinking that meant there weren’t any positive results in the return to school testing.

Our school has too when it's been onesies and twosies all fall... Now with omnicron radio silence on the back to school testing. Makes me more nervous, not less

Anonymous wrote:Maret reported the numbers and it was very high.

I thought they tested today

Maret reported the numbers and it was very high.

Our school reported 13% of the test results were positive. That doesn't include people who were already known to be positive, or who were within 90 days of a previous infection.