The best thing about area schools’ pooled testing for COVID is you don’t have to do it. Parents decide if they want to sign their child up. The second best thing, or a tie, really, is schools can use it to help keep children at school.

Read Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood’s letters at wiscassetschools.org, updating school families and the rest of us that either Wiscasset Elementary School, Wiscasset Middle High School, or both, have had another positive case or cases, and one school or the other is going remote until a given date, or that in-school instruction continues.

The virus is in Wiscasset, like everywhere else.

School officials have said pooled testing is now part of the equation in helping fewer students have to stay home. And with every letter Wood writes, she mentions the pooled testing, how to sign up and to “please consider” it.

So, please consider it; and if you have and decided against, and then the latest variant landed in the news and the U.S., and it seems you all of a sudden know more people who are getting COVID, consider the pooled testing again, if you see fit.

Week’s positive parting thought: Choice rhymes with rejoice.