Yes we stayed up with the school. Small town school. The idiots knew exactly what was going on. I'm pretty much over the situation. My reasoning for keeping the kid home was to not spread this crap. At that point in time there was about 50% attendance because of positive cases and contact.

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Yes we stayed up with the school. Small town school. The idiots knew exactly what was going on. I'm pretty much over the situation. My reasoning for keeping the kid home was to not spread this crap. At that point in time there was about 50% attendance because of positive cases and contact.

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Dont take this the wrong way. I respect how hard these decisions are for everyone.

And I have been in this situation in just the last month. And my daughter missed two weeks with actual ****ty covid. But otherwise I have sent my kids to school. I think quarantining juveniles because of contact tracing is counterproductive. I want my kids in school. They have missed enough.

No I understand. People handle situations in different ways. I'm with you on they have missed enough, but not enough to spread this crap even more.

At this point many hospitals are no longer overwhelmed, you are correct. There is a link showing that Houston #s are going down and also across the state

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No I understand. People handle situations in different ways. I'm with you on they have missed enough, but not enough to spread this crap even more.

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Official policy at the district I work for and the one my kids go to (2 different districts) eliminated Direct Contact as a reason to quarantine and stay home. Their policy only accounts for symptoms at this point. Otherwise a massive portion of the school is out. Given that in most cases last year the kiddos who were in direct contact quarantine never got any symptoms nor tested positive, it was pointless to continue the policy and better for the child and parent that those kids stay in school. Your distract most likely has the exact same policy and so yes, you'd need to send your kids to school. Both of our districts sent out a ton of messaging about this. Your district may not have though, I do not know. The CDC backs this up as well from what I understand.

Always call the school nurse or office if you have questions as thing fo change.

I am so glad my kids are grown. So many families are struggling with daycare shutting down for weeks at a time due to a single preschool COVID case. You still have to pay them for the spot but they close and the parents are struggling to keep working with this situation. I had one family last week whose day care closed due to a positive case where the kid had zero symptoms they just tested due to traveling out of the country.

Insane and a real racket for the day care to be able to close and still collect cash.

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No I understand. People handle situations in different ways. I'm with you on they have missed enough, but not enough to spread this crap even more.

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Right let's just keep dragging it out until it disappears. Lol.

I'm not trying to get in an argument here. Just stating what happened and what we felt best to do at the time in our situation. I have no issues with kids being in school. Although from what I've seen in our isd they really don't care. I'm sure it comes from above though because I know most of the staff personally.

I understand the frustration with closing the daycares. We operate one at our church but have to follow certain protocols since we are licensed by the state. One protocol if a kid tests positive and another if it is a teacher. Either way we still have to pay the staff that is affected when it is usually out of their control. We had to close one classroom recently for 7 days because a parent sent their child after dosing with Tylenol to get their fever down to pass the temperature check at drop off in the morning. She had an important Zoom meeting she couldn't miss and later said she was "pretty sure" the 2 year old had Covid since the Dad had tested positive. She didn't think the kid would be able to spread it because he was a small kid and wasn't really very sickjust running a little fever. As a result, 3 more kids tested positive and several parents from that class.

Yeah I'm sure it is due to state requirements but it is still silly. Those kids don't get critically ill with COVID relative to RSV and flu but we don't shut down day cares for a + RSV or flu or they would be closed nearly half the year.