Thousands of at-home COVID tests are being delivered to Long Island school districts and Gov. Kathy Hochul is promising one to each child, according to a top administrator.

Approximately 250,000 of those tests are coming to Nassau County as an effort to keep children in schools amid the Omicron surge.

Nassau Board of Cooperative Educational Services Superintendent Robert Dillon says the governor has pledged a take-home test for every student, around 420,000 for all of Long Island.

"There is a concerted effort to provide these tests to the school districts" Dillon says.

He says the tests bound for Nassau will be stored at a facility in Syosset.

It will be up to each school district to pick them up and choose what to do with them.

Dillon says the guidance is to distribute the tests and have the parents administer the tests.

"The test will be sent home," Dillon says. "We do not have the permission to do the testing in school."

Some parents are concerned if this plan will really keep children safe since it is contingent on other parents' actions.

"I know a lot of people that already don't wear masks," says South Huntington resident Danielle Gaviglia. "I don't think they're really going to test their children at home if they don't see any symptoms."

Dillon says they haven't received any information how how the tests are going to be read or recorded.

He also says the guidance from the state has been changing just about every day.