think it's about kids being in the safest place possible but also safe not just from covid but safe for their well-being. >> yeah. you know, the biden administration announced that each month now they are going to distribute 5 million free rapid tests to school, 5 million free pcrs and i'm curious does that change anything for you? you have a robust testing situation already, and considering you have 640,000 kids in your district and you're trying to test them weekly. >> well, i think, you know, again, our positivity rates are lower than the overall county. that's a great indicator. there's a different need for pcr tests and rapid tests. we tested every single employee and student before they came on campus, and if anyone had a positive test, we said please stay at home, test back in a week and come back to campus when you're no longer testing positive, so there's numbers you quoted, again, were a preventive measure before we even started our schools. i think when -- once we're in school we have weekly pcr testing for all of our employees and all of our students, and when they want to test back into