Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Healthy kids don't test positive for covid. Therefore if they test positive they are sick and need to stay home. If you know your child is healthy, you wouldn't be afraid to test them as you know they will be negative.

Are you joking? Educate yourself, please.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please do not sign up for surveillance testing if you want APS healthy kids to stay in school. Surveillance testing is only a way to keep healthy kids out of school.

Look at the story of Georgetown Prep: 100% vaccinated school, and now going remote because of 30 cases. From what people have said online, not 1 person is sick whatsoever and it was caught via surveillance testing. These are 30 asymptomatic, vaccinated kids (i.e., not sick) causing school to shut down. Previously, a case of an illness required symptoms, but that all changed with COVID even though the flu virus spreads asymptomatically too.

This is a virus that is never going away. NEVER. No mainstream scientist is saying that COVID will be eradicated or that herd immunity is possible. Everyone will be repeatedly exposed to COVID in their lifetime. Do you want to lock healthy kids out of schools forever and continually disrupt their education when such rules don’t apply to adults?

Please don’t say:
• Kids under 5 can’t be vaccinated – they have less risk with COVID than the flu, and we never surveillance tested for the flu
• Protect immunocompromised – immunocompromised didn’t start existing in March 2020, they’ve always had issues with bad flu seasons and they should take the same type of precautions
• Protect grandma and grandpa – grandma and grandpa can get vaccinated for a year now; if they’re anti-vaxxers, it’s on them at this point

Most importantly, why are children bearing this burden? We don’t surveillance test anywhere else in society, and unvaccinated kids are at less mortality risk from COVID than vaccinated 40 year olds. And what is the cost of children’s education being constantly disrupted? We aren’t disrupting elderly people’s pickleball games, middle aged people’s dining or millennials' bar nights, all of which are much less important than the youngest generation getting educated.

As of Nov. 17th, FCPS only had 124 opt ins (of 179K students) for surveillance testing. We need to put up similarly minute numbers. Keep healthy kids in school – don’t opt into APS surveillance testing!

LOL, love the totally bizarre anti-testing vibe. So, don't do something that it's completely optional and won't impact you in any way if someone else opts in? Why on earth anyone should care at all if a parent wants to opt in?

Let's do away with masks and quarantining even if positive while we're at it. Down with vax too, amiright?

DP. If you don’t understand the post no need to comment.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is so off track. Somebody got out of bed today and thought, "optional testing is the hill I want to die on." If I want my kids to opt into free, hard to get weekly testing (or to mask or to be vaccinated), why the eff should they care. I get the complaint about forced anything, but this is just odd to complain about free optional testing.

Not OP. One of my kids missed a week of school after being deemed a close contact of an asymptomatic kid who was detected during school screening. My kid tested negative, but a week of school lost and zero effort by APS to catch them up.

So yes, your decision to opt your kid in can affect other people’s kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please do not sign up for surveillance testing if you want APS healthy kids to stay in school. Surveillance testing is only a way to keep healthy kids out of school.

Look at the story of Georgetown Prep: 100% vaccinated school, and now going remote because of 30 cases. From what people have said online, not 1 person is sick whatsoever and it was caught via surveillance testing. These are 30 asymptomatic, vaccinated kids (i.e., not sick) causing school to shut down. Previously, a case of an illness required symptoms, but that all changed with COVID even though the flu virus spreads asymptomatically too.

This is a virus that is never going away. NEVER. No mainstream scientist is saying that COVID will be eradicated or that herd immunity is possible. Everyone will be repeatedly exposed to COVID in their lifetime. Do you want to lock healthy kids out of schools forever and continually disrupt their education when such rules don’t apply to adults?

Please don’t say:
• Kids under 5 can’t be vaccinated – they have less risk with COVID than the flu, and we never surveillance tested for the flu
• Protect immunocompromised – immunocompromised didn’t start existing in March 2020, they’ve always had issues with bad flu seasons and they should take the same type of precautions
• Protect grandma and grandpa – grandma and grandpa can get vaccinated for a year now; if they’re anti-vaxxers, it’s on them at this point

Most importantly, why are children bearing this burden? We don’t surveillance test anywhere else in society, and unvaccinated kids are at less mortality risk from COVID than vaccinated 40 year olds. And what is the cost of children’s education being constantly disrupted? We aren’t disrupting elderly people’s pickleball games, middle aged people’s dining or millennials' bar nights, all of which are much less important than the youngest generation getting educated.

As of Nov. 17th, FCPS only had 124 opt ins (of 179K students) for surveillance testing. We need to put up similarly minute numbers. Keep healthy kids in school – don’t opt into APS surveillance testing!

LOL, love the totally bizarre anti-testing vibe. So, don't do something that it's completely optional and won't impact you in any way if someone else opts in? Why on earth anyone should care at all if a parent wants to opt in?

Let's do away with masks and quarantining even if positive while we're at it. Down with vax too, amiright?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is so off track. Somebody got out of bed today and thought, "optional testing is the hill I want to die on." If I want my kids to opt into free, hard to get weekly testing (or to mask or to be vaccinated), why the eff should they care. I get the complaint about forced anything, but this is just odd to complain about free optional testing.

Not OP. One of my kids missed a week of school after being deemed a close contact of an asymptomatic kid who was detected during school screening. My kid tested negative, but a week of school lost and zero effort by APS to catch them up.

So yes, your decision to opt your kid in can affect other people’s kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Healthy kids don't test positive for covid. Therefore if they test positive they are sick and need to stay home. If you know your child is healthy, you wouldn't be afraid to test them as you know they will be negative.

Are you joking? Educate yourself, please.

Anonymous wrote:I signed up both of my kids for the testing program at the start of the school year. We’ve followed all of the requested protocols, and believed that APS would do their part, until given reason not to believe.

Both of my kids had symptoms that required staying home and testing at different points, and we were honest and followed the rules, believing that the work that they were missing in school would be fully accessible online and/or upon return to school, as promised. It wasn’t, for either. My junior missed two labs in an an AP science class, was not given an opportunity to make them up, and they tanked his grade until we went up the chain of command to get the situation rectified. That took over a month. Other classes also presented significant obstacles to accessing missed material and/or making up missed graded material.

My middle schooler missed a test while out awaiting test results and was given a sliver of time in an advisory period to make it up. She’s a fast and accurate test taker but could only complete half of the test. Another grade hit for a stellar student who did nothing wrong.

Both kids are fully vaccinated now, and we’re not signing up with the new testing vendor. If my kids are significantly symptomatic we’ll keep them home and accept the work makeup struggle. I’m not having them tested as long as they’re asymptomatic. APS shouldn’t make empty promises if it wants parents to choose to comply with this increasingly dubious program.

Anonymous wrote:+1. Vaccinate your kid and they don’t have to quarantine. Not my problem if your kid misses school because you are too dumb and selfish and choose not to get them a vax.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
A bunch of us teachers are worried that Younkin is going to come in with some big changes. I hate to add to the shortage, especially because we're still so drastically understaffed, but I'm at my tolerance limit. Any shift to less care (no masks or voluntary masks, for instance) and I will quit. I know others who have the same feeling about it. So you guys can go back-and-forth about it all you want but you need to know that your choices and Youngkin's choices may have negative consequences that you're not anticipating. I'm not saying that as a threat, I am stating a fact.

Don't let the door hit you on *ss on the way out. The few whiny teachers are the also the reason Youngkin won.

Many APS teachers locked our kids out of school, jumped to the front of the vaccine line in front of vulnerable elderly people, then refused to work, and I'm sure some are now threatening to quit if our children aren't masked for 2+ years and further harmed in their development. We'll call your bluff and wish you good riddance if you are serious (I'm happy to walk you to the door too to GTFO of your job). I'm done with this whiny *ss profession.

This isn't AEM, where treating any teacher other than with kid gloves gets you kicked off. I'm giving it to you straight and Youngkin can too.

There's actually a large pool of subs too. I have several friends who are waiting to get staffed as subs still.

Anonymous wrote:+1. Vaccinate your kid and they don’t have to quarantine. Not my problem if your kid misses school because you are too dumb and selfish and choose not to get them a vax.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is so off track. Somebody got out of bed today and thought, "optional testing is the hill I want to die on." If I want my kids to opt into free, hard to get weekly testing (or to mask or to be vaccinated), why the eff should they care. I get the complaint about forced anything, but this is just odd to complain about free optional testing.

Not OP. One of my kids missed a week of school after being deemed a close contact of an asymptomatic kid who was detected during school screening. My kid tested negative, but a week of school lost and zero effort by APS to catch them up.

So yes, your decision to opt your kid in can affect other people’s kids.

Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is so off track. Somebody got out of bed today and thought, "optional testing is the hill I want to die on." If I want my kids to opt into free, hard to get weekly testing (or to mask or to be vaccinated), why the eff should they care. I get the complaint about forced anything, but this is just odd to complain about free optional testing.

Anonymous wrote:Healthy kids don't test positive for covid. Therefore if they test positive they are sick and need to stay home. If you know your child is healthy, you wouldn't be afraid to test them as you know they will be negative.