The Lathrop School Board on Wednesday recommended changes for how district administrators will handle COVID-19 protocols, just a few weeks into the school year.The district will no longer provide COVID-19 testing in schools. Administrators will also relax quarantine procedures to allow more students to remain in school."I don't know that what we're doing is making any difference other than keeping a lot of kids that should have been at school, the healthy kids, out of school," Lathrop Superintendent Chris Fine said.This week, the district required virtual learning for its elementary school due to so many kids in quarantine.Lathrop had 211 students and four staff members district-wide quarantine away from Lathrop classrooms last week, after 22 students and one staff member tested positive on Sept. 3.Under the new guidelines, instead of keeping entire classrooms out of school, district administrators will decide who needs to quarantine by cohort or seating charts. The district said in a Facebook post Thursday it is still working on final changes to those guidelines.Fine said the board made the changes to align with similar practices at surrounding rural northwest Missouri school districts. He also said the district's COVID-19 testing program took too many school resources to accommodate.Still, parents like Dana Walters are concerned. She has a student at Lathrop Middle School and Lathrop High School."All they're trying to do is make it appear like we don't have a COVID problem, whenever we do have COVID problems," she said.Walters spoke at Wednesday night's board meeting. She expected the district to toughen COVID-19 policies with so many positive cases. Instead, she was disappointed to learn the district relaxed its guidelines."I feel like people like me and my voice isn't being heard," she said. "I feel like the people that are upset about their child having to get a mask or maybe a vaccine, they're the only voices that are being heard here."The district remains without a mandatory mask policy.You can find the latest COVID-19 data from Lathrop, here.