The agency said it was fine for schools to administer COVID-19 tests to students on a voluntary basis, not a mandatory one. That's terrible advice.
Buried deep within an otherwise reasonable directive by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about COVID-19 testing at reopened schools is wording that is out of sync with both the dangers of the current pandemic and existing state rules about infectious disease at schools.to test someone who doesn’t want to be tested, including students whose parents or guardians do not want them to be tested,” says the document released this week.
The courts have repeatedly upheld the right of states to require vaccination of all public school students except those with compromised immune systems or other conditions that make the vaccines dangerous to them. And parents can be required to submit proof that their children have received all their required inoculations.What about daily temperature checks? That’s also a test of each child’s health status.
What parents cannot do is act as the arbiters of other children’s health. Most parents support testing. They want their kids back on campus, learning in person, but they want it done safely. and contact-tracing program in advance of reopening schools that appears to have broad support from teachers and parents.In contrast, there already have been cases in other states of parents sending their children to school, knowing that they were infected with the new coronavirus and keeping the information secret. These parents, heedless of the danger their children might represent to others, are the most likely to reject tests at school because their whole plan is to escape detection.
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