D.C. Public Schools Requiring Negative COVID Tests After Thanksgiving

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D.C. Public Schools students and staff will be required to upload proof of a negative COVID test before returning to school after the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Those tests are expired. Next go check their accuracy and amout of false positives. Oh - and they are released under EUA so cannot be mandated, forced, or coerced. If you feel sick - stay home. Otherwise keep our kids in school.

You are out of your damn minds. Stop F'ing with kids.

Good for them.

Lol.

So, ILLEGAL ALIENS are welcomed to AMERICA without any medical records!

They do not want *sick* kids in school.

I would stick it in the dog poop outside and send it to them

My kid would not be returning

cmilitant

Capital freedom.

With what authority are they requiring this?

Holy hell! You people need serious help

You all are ridiculous . We are still in a pandemic . What is wrong with the kids testing before they return? I can't believe some of you.

I’m so glad we chose Catholic school

This is when you just submit the photo of the negative test that you took ages ago and have on your camera roll for just such an occasion :)

Somebody in the DC school district has a monetary stake in testing.

Why not check everyone’s feet for “trench foot?”

Good luck with that 70% absentee rate. That should help learning and development.

Absolutely ridiculous

Under what law?

why.better chance keeping covid down by just saying; have fever or a cough stay at home. this testing bs will just create cheaters or do the kids have test supervised ....makes no sense

Insane

Here is my negative COVID test: 🖕

No

Fvck DC 🖕🏻

This is awful. Stop terrorizing children.

Only losers live in DC.

These 'cOvId' tests and the follow up 'required' is at least as 'racist' as voter ID

So Govt issued ID’s are racist, but these $20 tests are required for a child to receive an education?

We don't need no thought control

Is this for real?

This is still happening? Wow, please move on

This is insane!!

Reminder this is discrimination promoted by this administration. File your lawsuits now. Prosecution is the kindest thing they can hope for.

Why do you test students for COVID with expired tests? The expiration date on the box is 2022-06-11 !

Do not comply! Send your kids to schools without testing. We have to resist.

On a completely unrelated and note and apropos of nothing at all, it's really amazing what you can accomplish with basic photo-editing software. Even humble MS Paint is capable of some impressive feats.

What a clown show.

Are they also required to test negative for the flu and other contagious viral illnesses? If not, this is completely based on feelings and not health or science.

GFY.

DCPS needs to get sued and any employee who complies to pushing this bs should get fired!

justrea48141938 Do they need to test for strep? Flu? RSV? We can’t keep doing this. I believe people should stay home if they actually feel sick, and wish they would, but we can’t keep testing asymptomatic people indefinitely with no evidence it even makes a difference.

how ridiculous!!

Creepy

Insane that people are ok with restrictions on children while adults have none. And kids are the lowest risk portion of the population

Junk. This is why you're junk.

Unreal. Schools are The only place on earth where people are still obsessing on Covid test.

They should require vaccination and no nonsense about it.

This is ridiculous and probably not legal. Clowns

How much are the test manufacturers and pharma lobbyists paying pols and union bosses? Follow the money and you’ll find the science.

Athan_K OMGosh - there's no way to cheat that system...lol.../s

Communists.

This is an effective low key ad for Home schooling.

I’ve seen this same stuff in China

I’d fake the test if I was a parent there. “Look it’s negative!”

Testing for a deadly virus which has already infected 30% of Americans. 45% of French. Keep testing forever!!!

Expired June 2022?

DC is a dump

You people are playing a dangerous game that you will lose!

Lol. DC, bro. 🤡

What a waste of money...if NY tries this shit I'm COVID testing the air and sending a pic. F*ck that.

The democrats continue with the covid theater BS hurting kids just trying to go to school. For shame …

DCP OR CCP?

Is this from 2020?

The vaxx is garbage. The tests are garbage. The public schools requiring either are garbage. Do not comply

You’ve got to be kidding! Let the kids be kids again

You people are legitimately sick individuals. Please get help.

Only a cult would require this.

Why are parents ok with this How are kids in other states surviving without doing this? 🤡

Not going to happen. Throw Me Out. Never tested, NEVER WILL.

My son is 8. I rapid tested him once in Jan 21 so he could go to daycare. School wouldn't allow him back for 2 weeks regardless of test bc we went to Florida.

Get yourself and your kids out of big cities as soon as you can.

The expiration date is extended.

Liberals love Covid

Here’s the test result……🖕

Nice mask. Too bad it's not on right.

No wonder why you are not a state… 🤡

Oh drop the facade already. These officials are tyrannical cowards.

You're living in a tyrannical city. Just FYI.

Why not just make the kids wear hazmat suits

🤡🤡🤣🤣🤡🤡🤣🤣🤡🤡🤣🤣🤡🤡🤣🤣🤡🤡🤣🤣🤡🤡💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

Who is getting $ for all.this unnecessary testing?

How about no?

Reminder: get your kids out of D.C. public schools. Actually, who are we kidding- D.C. voters WANTED this. Enjoy it!

Stuck on stupid.

Have you guys tried fucking off?

Lol

Ridiculous

Lol sucks to suck

So... a City with the lowest test scores, highest dropout rates, and lowest graduation rates in the nation is giving children another excuse for skipping school? Brilliant. For a virus that 95% of the population HAS ALREADY HAD. Being Woke isn't in the best interest of the kids.

Clowns

Why no testing in the library?

What the fuck?

The test is a farce. Its results are essentially random.

You people are disgusting

Time to move. Far far away.

Bars too?

How very sad. So glad my grands are here in the free states

You’re out of your minds and ruining kids. Stop!!!

Those tests are expired

Clown town.

Why?

DC residents you get what you vote for

China

In-fucking-sane.

Best way to not get COVID is to not test. 👍

Is that a daily test? If it is, who is the covid test supplier, may be a good investment. I'm thinking the Gov insiders already invested in it before the D.C. school district mandated daily tests.

What the hell are you all playing at?!

What a joke

Disgusting child abuse, and anti-scientific nonsense.

You do not have to comply. DCPS has no legal authority to mandate Covid testing.

Why?

No, DCPS does not have legal authority to impose this requirement.

The unions are the virus

That is good, but I thought that most people test positive 10 days after exposure.

Fascists

Stop testing. No one who is asymptomatic should be getting tested. People wake up and refuse getting tested. This is the only way to stop this nonsense.

you people are disgusting

Communism

Tell me, are expired tests ore or less accurate than those that are not expired? Use by 6-11-22 is what it says on the package.

Big Blue Cities abusing their own residents. 🍻

The 'pandemic' is over. Stop this stupid nonsense! Leave the kids alone.

I smell a kickback scheme… anyone following the $$

condition them while they are young like they did with all of us

What happens if parents don’t do this nonsense? Nowhere else is doing this.

Everyone would be better off if DC was hit by a meteor

Beyond absurd. Complete failure of the adults in charge of this sh!tshow.

Is this even legal?

Monsters.

Gotta keep the fear mongering alive it seems. How pathetic.

Why would I send my children to be educated by fools?

leave the kids alone.

Reminder: this is child abuse

follow the money.

Don’t do this

This is complete and utter horseshit. And so are you MayorBowser

Silly waste of time and money

🤡🌍

Liberalism is a mental disorder. There should be a lobotomy mandate against it.

Let’s do everything we can to make sure our kids are mentally messed up and submissive to all authority.

Dc schools should be more concerned with passing a proficiency test rather a covid test.

This is stupid

What an absolute clown show

More totalitarianism

They’re expired too.

There are many many more flu cases currently. This is stupid.

What's the sensitivity & specificity of the tests? I assume they have a highly accurate measurement of actual prevalence so that the school can then do the Bayesian math. What probability of actually being infected is concerning to them, since the tests cannot possibly tell them?

Branch Covidians. Just amazing. And terrifying.

This is unnecessary and cruel. You should be ashamed. What about an education?

Silliness

But why?

Ritual Child Abuse.

But Joey said the pandemic is over 🤦‍♀️ you guys should be sued

Total Idiocy

Shove your test kits up your sorry arses

Paid by Pfizer which pays the dems . Money laundering

So many politicians with stock in the testing companies is the only logical explanation

What a joke.

This is totalitarian.

Hey they found a test that the majority of dc public school students can actually pass!

Clowns

Here's a photo for those who may need one.

Beyond ridiculous!!

What a shitshow.

How many people keep their old test negatives and can simply take a picture of that?

Absolute clown town there

Coercion IS force and this is not ok.

Insanity

Just wow…

This is so stupid. You get what you vote for

WTF?! This is pathetic

Hahahaha pound sand. I hear many parents pulling their kids out already. Good luck with getting any needed funding for every student missed. 🤡

Ridiculous. You people are a complete joke. Shove a carcinogen qtip up your nose and then “take a pic”. What clowns.

Seems like a huge waste of money with the flu and rsv going crazy right now as well.

What the actual F DC...it's nearly 2023...for the kids' sake...please MOVE ON.

Why not a flu test too?

🤡 🤡 🤡

Malarkey

We are still doing this?

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