San Antonio-area school districts do not maintain a standardized COVID-19 testing policy...
Julyssa Rodriguez, 15, gets a COVID-19 test at Somerset High School on Monday, Feb. 14. Students and staff are required to take rapid tests each week.Every Monday, Monica Ramos’s two children pay a visit to the nurse’s office for a nasal swab test.
San Antonio-area school districts do not maintain a standardized COVID-19 testing policy for students, faculty and staff. Some districts mandate weekly testing. Others strongly encourage but do not mandate weekly testing. Still, others strongly encourage testing only when students, faculty and staff exhibit obvious symptoms, enabling asymptomatic infections to slip through the cracks.
Hinojosa is the superintendent of Somerset Independent School District. He said the district requires all students to take rapid tests Mondays because “safety is paramount.” In his experience, regular testing is especially important because a high proportion — about 90 percent — of cases among students at Somerset are asymptomatic.Partially, as a result, few other school districts have taken as rigorous an approach to testing.
If Somerset represents one end of the testing spectrum, Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD represents the other. The district is comparatively hands-off. Erika Rodriguez, 16, gets a COVID-19 test at Somerset High School on Monday, Feb. 14. Students and staff are required to take rapid tests each week.The policy differences mean athletes from schools that require weekly testing and are confirmed negative regularly come into contact with athletes from schools that do not require weekly testing — the uninfected and the potentially infected mingling.
“And so we see just as many transmissions, if not more, sometimes off the field — carpooling to practice or having a break together on the sidelines and not following precautions,” she said.
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