Anonymous wrote:Langley is only testing via PCR every other week, which is insane. No additional mitigation. I miss our old HOS.

Langley tests older grades weekly and just set up a covid dashboard that outlines the number of active cases school wide as well as by division and grade. Michele Claeys has made amazing improvements in just a short time in middle school. She’s been very responsive to parents (adjusted the schedule to increase frequency of core classes which is a major undertaking once the school year has started, improved the HS outplacement process, hired strong new teachers, created the positions of assistant division heads—things are running much more smoothly than last year). I would just ask if the frequency of testing for younger kids can be increased during this peak time. Don’t assume they will say no. Langley has handled covid incredibly well for the duration of the pandemic and is responsive to parents.

K-12 school
Girls school - 9.5%
Boys School - 7%

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Anonymous wrote:High school of approx 400 kids had 54 positives. I don’t know how many staff there are Included in that. Positivity has to be approaching 10%.
They are still in person. Lunch outside, no assemblies, disposable masks. They already had good precautions in place. I’m not sure anything else could be added. I am comfortable with sending my child.

That's well over 10%.

So?

I would send my kid too.

Yes, we know you would.

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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.

You know that’s not how it works, right?

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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

No. It’s responsible.

But if you’d rather they learn at home, maskfree and blissfully untested, no problem.

Something I don't understand is that vaccinated children who are "close contacts" are not being asked to quarantine for a short while or test out or test more frequently while exposed at home oftentimes,- as per CDC guidelines I guess. Maybe during previous iterations of Covid that I suspect these guidelines were developed for, but Omnicron seems to be as much a disease of the vaccinated (though presenting milder) as anyone. And these kids could certainly carry and transmit completely asymptomatically. Not trying to punish anyone, just don't understand that guideline given the extreme transmissibility of Omnicron .

Every other week? Wow. 14 days between tests is a lifetime. Ya’ll are headed to a bad place.

Langley is only testing via PCR every other week, which is insane. No additional mitigation. I miss our old HOS.

these 3 JAMA articles from Biden's former Transition medical adavisers are filled with very good ideas/ public policies:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/newonline

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for starting this thread. We need to know the positivity rate when everyone is tested. Could you please also specify if the tests are PCR or rapid antigen?

Well, OP, the test positive rate Nationally is 50 % and that is averaging in states with lower rates. DC is a hot spot and at home tests are not being counted.

There is no logical reason to expect that DC Private schools would have drastically LOWER test positive rates, especially as only about 20 % of country even had a booster BEFORE Omicorn hit

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Twice a week? .so jealous

Same at Bullis.

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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 for my 7 year old.