By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – February 1, 2022 One would think that if you are referring to our local educators, you are possibly talking about locals who are among the brightest that this community has to offer. Yet it seems that a virus approximately 100 nanometers in size that has difficulty being a health issue for nearly all children and healthy adults, has the district beside itself in terror. According to the Brainless in Charge, The Del Norte Unified School District's Superintendent, Jeff Harris, the district's students and staff are dropping like flies. As of the DNUSD's latest update on January 19th, 14 students (3564) and 15 staff members ( about 1830) had tested positive for the Omicron Variant of Covid-19. That translates to less than one half of one percent of students and less than one percent of all staff, that has the district's administration in an uproar. The circus; however, does not end there. Because a minuscule number of students, likely using the highly unreliable rapid antigen test, have tested positive, has the district quarantining students left and right. Hundreds of local students have been sent home to quarantine for the recommended five day period, symptoms not with standing. Now we all know that during the pandemic, school from home was an utter disaster. That the school district is into sending students homeward due to questionable testing, and "contact Tracing", is the potential for another wasted school year that was off to an excellent start. Common sense out the window, college education merely a piece of paper, and hysteria reigns throughout the local school district. Apparently Omicron doesn't travel well in the local public schools and contact tracing and over zealous testing have turned up very few clusters of the virus. Doesn't really seem that a lot of students or the staff have much in the way of symptoms or even mild illness. It does not make much sense to send them home. If the governor can't seem to take it all that seriously why should our youth pay the price of a manufactured Covid, gulp!, gulp! crisis at the local schools. The school district administration is no doubt tired of hearing that ALL THE MASKING, VACCINATIONS, CONTACT TRACING, SOCIAL DISTANCING, AND TESTING, will not change the fact the these measures have not effectively changed anything when it comes to our youth and otherwise healthy adults. The science does not support the "nanny state" behavior of our local public education masters. The school district needs to take their collective heads off the chest of drawers in the morning and attach it to their necks, then a little critical thinking is in order. It seems as though that has gone out of style. Waffling over a few Covid positives using a highly unreliable test is the height of foolishness, not a good look for our community's "brightest". If members of the community wish to slavishly follow the narrative blindly, even as it no longer has relevance so be it. If local children are going to "become educated" the school district needs for them to be in their seats, in front of a qualified educator and not jumping every time someone even utters the words "Covid Positive". It has long been established that there are very few youth that have serious issues with the virus. The unintended consequences of being out of school in the community are far worse. The "adults" in public education need to suck it up and do their job….