Just browsing the news bumped into two unrelated stories today, from small town California to large.
Los Angeles is one of the biggest school districts in the country.
LAUSD Is Handing Out Rapid Tests For Baseline COVID Testing; The district requires all students and staff to have the negative COVID-19 test for a baseline in addition to weekly testing. - https://laist.com/news/education/lausd-is-handing-out-rapid-tests-for-baseline-testing-heres-where-to-go
Mendocino County schools ahead of the curve in distributing COVID tests - https://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/2022/01/07/mendocino-county-schools-ahead-of-the-curve-in-distributing-covid-tests/
I recently learned about "pool testing" in my local school district. Basically the school selects a dozen random students, shoves Q-Tips under their noses, sends the Q-Tips to some shady MIT company, and if any the Q-Tips test positive, then the school is forced to undergo more testing. Of course, nobody questions how 1) this can be abused to keep schools permanently closed, 2) what the shady company is doing with the DNA data collected from the Q-tips, 3) why only the White-majority schools in the district are pool testing but others are not.