Anonymous wrote:Not sure what the new form looks like but I plan to opt out my vaccinated student. I will keep my child home if they are symptomatic and we will handle testing. There is no legit reason to do screening testing on an asymptomatic vaccinated student in a school environment where everyone has the option of getting vaccinated. And I'm not risking the possibility that a false positive will derail my child's education.

I also happen to think the "opt out" model is illegal and the school district has no business doing medical testing on my child without my consent.

It’s not meant for vaccinated students.

“ Participating schools will aim to test a random sample of 10-20% of asymptomatic students, targeting unvaccinated students.”

It's one thing to test a student who exhibits symptoms associated with COVID but just testing healthy students randomly does not sit well with me. If I trusted DCPS's ability to handle the process correctly, I might feel differently. My child has been vaccinated since May. I fully intend to get him a booster. My children are accustomed to wearing masks and do it without complaint. We distance, wash hands, use sanitizer. I don't feel like entrusting my child's access to education to DCPS running a health program is smart or protects my child's best interest. Let all the unvaccinated teens get tested instead.

Anonymous wrote:I'll be opting out, due to high false positive rates and my lack of trust in DC schools with how they are running education during a pandemic.

What exactly is the false positive rate for this test? I feel like it’s false negatives that are more of a worry.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure what the new form looks like but I plan to opt out my vaccinated student. I will keep my child home if they are symptomatic and we will handle testing. There is no legit reason to do screening testing on an asymptomatic vaccinated student in a school environment where everyone has the option of getting vaccinated. And I'm not risking the possibility that a false positive will derail my child's education.

I also happen to think the "opt out" model is illegal and the school district has no business doing medical testing on my child without my consent.

100% agree on all of your points

+1. How is opt-out legal? How does it not violate HIPAA and FERPA?

Anonymous wrote:Not sure what the new form looks like but I plan to opt out my vaccinated student. I will keep my child home if they are symptomatic and we will handle testing. There is no legit reason to do screening testing on an asymptomatic vaccinated student in a school environment where everyone has the option of getting vaccinated. And I'm not risking the possibility that a false positive will derail my child's education.

I also happen to think the "opt out" model is illegal and the school district has no business doing medical testing on my child without my consent.

100% agree on all of your points

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Anonymous wrote:Why don’t they just retest the positives?

Bc DC is idiotic. That's what we are all saying wrt bad testing protocols.

If a child tests positive the family should retest. Why should the school system do that? Let them focus on education.

It will not matter what you test after you get a positive. That’s the point. You can show them a negative test from the same day. Doesn’t matter.

The policy just changed today. Why can’t it change again? Maybe that’s something to advocate for?

Are they doing pooled testing?

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Anonymous wrote:Why don’t they just retest the positives?

Bc DC is idiotic. That's what we are all saying wrt bad testing protocols.

If a child tests positive the family should retest. Why should the school system do that? Let them focus on education.

It will not matter what you test after you get a positive. That’s the point. You can show them a negative test from the same day. Doesn’t matter.

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Testing should NOT be optional. Every one, regardless of vaccinated status, should be tested every single week during the school year, and failing that, should not be admitted to school until a negative PCR test can be provided.

Nope. That's not the policy. Many of us are opting out.

Why are you opting out?

Its a waste. Kids are essentially at zero risk. 170,000 kids in DC and zero deaths. It's a waste of time.

It’s not a waste at all. Knowing if your child is positive helps you avoid breakthrough Covid.

DP. How so? I’m not going to exile my kid from the house. I’m vaccinated and not worried about severe illness.

Just because you won’t have severe illness doesn’t mean you — and the rest of your family — won’t have moderate cases. It’s pretty disruptive for a bunch of people to get sick.

Oh, you mean like when we had the flu or norovirus? For which we never quarantined anybody? I wish we quarantined kids for norovirus, it’s so much nastier than a Covid breakthrough infection in a healthy adult is likely to be.

That said, I’m not opting out of testing, but the idea that I would avoid a breakthrough infection because I know my kid is an asymptomatic positive doesn’t factor into that decision.

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Testing should NOT be optional. Every one, regardless of vaccinated status, should be tested every single week during the school year, and failing that, should not be admitted to school until a negative PCR test can be provided.

Nope. That's not the policy. Many of us are opting out.

Why are you opting out?

Its a waste. Kids are essentially at zero risk. 170,000 kids in DC and zero deaths. It's a waste of time.

It’s not a waste at all. Knowing if your child is positive helps you avoid breakthrough Covid.

DP. How so? I’m not going to exile my kid from the house. I’m vaccinated and not worried about severe illness.

Just because you won’t have severe illness doesn’t mean you — and the rest of your family — won’t have moderate cases. It’s pretty disruptive for a bunch of people to get sick.

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Anonymous wrote:Why don’t they just retest the positives?

Bc DC is idiotic. That's what we are all saying wrt bad testing protocols.

If a child tests positive the family should retest. Why should the school system do that? Let them focus on education.

Anonymous wrote:Why don’t they just retest the positives?

Bc DC is idiotic. That's what we are all saying wrt bad testing protocols.

Anonymous wrote:Why don’t they just retest the positives?

+1. Seems like an easy answer. Pro sports have been doing this for a while with no issue.

Why don’t they just retest the positives?

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Testing should NOT be optional. Every one, regardless of vaccinated status, should be tested every single week during the school year, and failing that, should not be admitted to school until a negative PCR test can be provided.

Nope. That's not the policy. Many of us are opting out.

Why are you opting out?

Its a waste. Kids are essentially at zero risk. 170,000 kids in DC and zero deaths. It's a waste of time.

There could be kids and adults at your school who are immunocompromised, or live with immunocompromised family members. I cannot understand this attitude towards your own school community! Don’t you care about other people?!?!?