St Patrick’s uses capital diagnostics and they’ve just informed parents that they are moving to testing twice weekly now instead of just once weekly as they’ve done all year (and nearly all of last year as well).

I’m still comfortable sending DC in, and have appreciated the weekly tests for some peace of mind.

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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.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.

Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up

What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

And most of those kids are in public schools, so when a private school takes steps that don't prioritize the safety of the community, they are contributing to those things in the most vulnerable.

You can't possibly claim that sending your privileged child to school with covid protects vulnerable kids from violence, unless you are a child abuser.

I agree. I’m so sick of everything being shut down for the immunocompromised - we did it for so long, you’re welcome! But I strongly object to doing it again. Everyone should just get covid over with it. Immunocompromised people can stay home, which is unfortunate and not ideal, but better than the entire population staying home.

Your complete lack of empathy and way of communicating say a lot about you as a person. Not in a good way. That said, I actually agree. Those of us that are immunocompromised need to take care of ourselves as we did before COVID to limit risks. Not all of us expect the world to stop to mange risk for us.

But when one of her family members needs a immune modulator, it’ll be “shut down everywhere.” She just doesn’t want to be inconvenienced. Not even for a few weeks. Selfish. Pathetic

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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.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.

Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up

What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

And most of those kids are in public schools, so when a private school takes steps that don't prioritize the safety of the community, they are contributing to those things in the most vulnerable.

You can't possibly claim that sending your privileged child to school with covid protects vulnerable kids from violence, unless you are a child abuser.

I agree. I’m so sick of everything being shut down for the immunocompromised - we did it for so long, you’re welcome! But I strongly object to doing it again. Everyone should just get covid over with it. Immunocompromised people can stay home, which is unfortunate and not ideal, but better than the entire population staying home.

Your complete lack of empathy and way of communicating say a lot about you as a person. Not in a good way. That said, I actually agree. Those of us that are immunocompromised need to take care of ourselves as we did before COVID to limit risks. Not all of us expect the world to stop to mange risk for us.

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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.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.



Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up
What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

Agree. It isn’t just the virus, gang. Long term harm comes in many forms. Our school leaders continue to let us down. Testing perfectly healthy kids with no symptoms who are vax’d makes zero sense. Much greater harm than greater good.

You can't be for real.

While I am not the entire string, I am the last poster and I am very real and not alone. We are doing far more harm than good to kids that have been fully vax'd. I see zero reason for a school to test an asymptomatic, vax'd child that is essentially in a 100% vax'd cohort. Numbers say the worst vax'd kids will get are cold-like symptoms. No hospitalization. No deaths. Are their outliers re symptoms, of course. But school policy shouldn't be made on outlier cases.

It is pretty clear that we are all going to get some version of Omicron...get vax'd and move on for the vast, vast majority of people.

Last poster, I’m confused about why you think testing harms kids. It’s a quick nasal swab. And I’m pretty sure a lot of this revolves around keeping teachers healthy, not just students. Can’t run a school with a bunch of sick teachers.

How would you feel if you were age 12-14 double vax Ed, wearing masks everywhere for over 2 years, then we’re tested weekly for two years. Each week waiting to find out “ am I positive”, “ will they make me stay home”, “ will I die”, “will I give it to someone else who will die” and all this time you are actually healthy, and just paralyzed by what if’s snd fear.

It’s outrageous

My 12 year old could not care less about testing. Not all kids are feeling the way you describe. I think you’ve passed on your anxiety. For my kid COVID tests are now as worrisome as brushing her teeth.

You say that like it’s a good thing.

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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.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.

Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up
What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

Agree. It isn’t just the virus, gang. Long term harm comes in many forms. Our school leaders continue to let us down. Testing perfectly healthy kids with no symptoms who are vax’d makes zero sense. Much greater harm than greater good.

You can't be for real.

I just chuckled. She’s ridiculous.

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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.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.



Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up
What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

Agree. It isn’t just the virus, gang. Long term harm comes in many forms. Our school leaders continue to let us down. Testing perfectly healthy kids with no symptoms who are vax’d makes zero sense. Much greater harm than greater good.

You can't be for real.

While I am not the entire string, I am the last poster and I am very real and not alone. We are doing far more harm than good to kids that have been fully vax'd. I see zero reason for a school to test an asymptomatic, vax'd child that is essentially in a 100% vax'd cohort. Numbers say the worst vax'd kids will get are cold-like symptoms. No hospitalization. No deaths. Are their outliers re symptoms, of course. But school policy shouldn't be made on outlier cases.

It is pretty clear that we are all going to get some version of Omicron...get vax'd and move on for the vast, vast majority of people.

Last poster, I’m confused about why you think testing harms kids. It’s a quick nasal swab. And I’m pretty sure a lot of this revolves around keeping teachers healthy, not just students. Can’t run a school with a bunch of sick teachers.

How would you feel if you were age 12-14 double vax Ed, wearing masks everywhere for over 2 years, then we’re tested weekly for two years. Each week waiting to find out “ am I positive”, “ will they make me stay home”, “ will I die”, “will I give it to someone else who will die” and all this time you are actually healthy, and just paralyzed by what if’s snd fear.

It’s outrageous

My 12 year old could not care less about testing. Not all kids are feeling the way you describe. I think you’ve passed on your anxiety. For my kid COVID tests are now as worrisome as brushing her teeth.

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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.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.

Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up
What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

Agree. It isn’t just the virus, gang. Long term harm comes in many forms. Our school leaders continue to let us down. Testing perfectly healthy kids with no symptoms who are vax’d makes zero sense. Much greater harm than greater good.

Really? That’s the most unsubstantiated wild-assed assertion I’ve heard in a while. Wow

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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.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.

Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up

What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

So where a mask, get vaxxed and tested. We all win. See how that works? Or do you just want to be angry?

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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.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.



Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up
What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

Agree. It isn’t just the virus, gang. Long term harm comes in many forms. Our school leaders continue to let us down. Testing perfectly healthy kids with no symptoms who are vax’d makes zero sense. Much greater harm than greater good.

You can't be for real.

While I am not the entire string, I am the last poster and I am very real and not alone. We are doing far more harm than good to kids that have been fully vax'd. I see zero reason for a school to test an asymptomatic, vax'd child that is essentially in a 100% vax'd cohort. Numbers say the worst vax'd kids will get are cold-like symptoms. No hospitalization. No deaths. Are their outliers re symptoms, of course. But school policy shouldn't be made on outlier cases.

It is pretty clear that we are all going to get some version of Omicron...get vax'd and move on for the vast, vast majority of people.

Last poster, I’m confused about why you think testing harms kids. It’s a quick nasal swab. And I’m pretty sure a lot of this revolves around keeping teachers healthy, not just students. Can’t run a school with a bunch of sick teachers.

How would you feel if you were age 12-14 double vax Ed, wearing masks everywhere for over 2 years, then we’re tested weekly for two years. Each week waiting to find out “ am I positive”, “ will they make me stay home”, “ will I die”, “will I give it to someone else who will die” and all this time you are actually healthy, and just paralyzed by what if’s snd fear.

It’s outrageous

My 12 year old could not care less about testing. Not all kids are feeling the way you describe. I think you’ve passed on your anxiety. For my kid COVID tests are now as worrisome as brushing her teeth.

+1

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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.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.



Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up
What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

Agree. It isn’t just the virus, gang. Long term harm comes in many forms. Our school leaders continue to let us down. Testing perfectly healthy kids with no symptoms who are vax’d makes zero sense. Much greater harm than greater good.

You can't be for real.

While I am not the entire string, I am the last poster and I am very real and not alone. We are doing far more harm than good to kids that have been fully vax'd. I see zero reason for a school to test an asymptomatic, vax'd child that is essentially in a 100% vax'd cohort. Numbers say the worst vax'd kids will get are cold-like symptoms. No hospitalization. No deaths. Are their outliers re symptoms, of course. But school policy shouldn't be made on outlier cases.

It is pretty clear that we are all going to get some version of Omicron...get vax'd and move on for the vast, vast majority of people.

Last poster, I’m confused about why you think testing harms kids. It’s a quick nasal swab. And I’m pretty sure a lot of this revolves around keeping teachers healthy, not just students. Can’t run a school with a bunch of sick teachers.

How would you feel if you were age 12-14 double vax Ed, wearing masks everywhere for over 2 years, then we’re tested weekly for two years. Each week waiting to find out “ am I positive”, “ will they make me stay home”, “ will I die”, “will I give it to someone else who will die” and all this time you are actually healthy, and just paralyzed by what if’s snd fear.

It’s outrageous

I think there is significant merit to considerations around overall child mental health and the need to be in person for school and that we don't want to have an extreme response to omicron endure beyond when we get over the spike in schools that have unvaxxed young kids. The virtual posture of fully vaxxed collegiate communities has me skeptical that's the correct course of action.

With that being said, lack of in-person school is not the sole driver of the mental health crisis for kids. The pandemic has just put further pressure on already strenuous issues facing kids that we adults didn't deal with: the omnipresence of social media and the current insane social/political landscape of American society. I'd imagine that those 12-14 year old kids incur more stress from their digital lives and windows into angry adulthood than they do from a nasal swab.

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell still has not provided the school community with complete results, citing disabling problems with the school's website.

On Monday evening, the HOS emailed to share a 5% rate but it did not include tests done outside of school. Since Monday evening -- no updates. A teacher friend told us that the all-in rate is closer to 8%.

All grades are in person. Lunch outside and enhanced masking guidance.

Sidwell: requiring two surgical masks, or one surgical+one cloth, or 1kn95–at all times inside and outside. in addition to the grab and go lunch outside.

Sidwell still has not provided the school community with complete results, citing disabling problems with the school's website.

On Monday evening, the HOS emailed to share a 5% rate but it did not include tests done outside of school. Since Monday evening -- no updates. A teacher friend told us that the all-in rate is closer to 8%.

All grades are in person. Lunch outside and enhanced masking guidance.

Anonymous wrote:What vendors/ contractors are different schools using right now for testing? Names would be helpful!

Are schools planning weekly testing? Are the supplies even available for weekly testing?

Our school uses Capital Diagnostics and tests weekly. They have for months.