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They tried to push for more testing last year here in NY, but a lot of parents starting putting pressure on the city to lessen the testing standards. Eventually the testing standards got whittled down to nothing. The ugly truth is that school is free baby sitting. I’d like to think it will be different this time as last year, kids weren’t considered to be at risk. Reality is, they will probably push even harder this time. A bunch of them actively conspired to not inform the schools of potentially infectious families. Humans can really suck.
That makes it even more important to test regularly as a condition of being allowed to participate in in-person education and extra curricular activities when there has been clear evidence that people are withholding information about exposure. I remember hearing about a case locally where they allowed a sibling to attend school while his brother in the same household was out with COVID. C'mon...