Does this mean DC school mask mandate is over?

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Anonymous wrote:The point is that a parent is allowed to opt their child out of testing and yet the school tests the kid anyway. It doesn’t matter what you think of the parent’s decision.

No, mother in question is an obvious nutter who is showing up at her kid's school to yell at teachers/administrators during, e.g., a pandemic, and WWIII brewing - because her MS child (who probably agrees mother is a nutter with lack of boundaries) was tested for a virus..."Testing is bad" is Trumpian AF.

The dumbest thing to throw in. Obviously, you can't walk and chew gum at the same time, but most people can.

Even in Ukraine right now, what's one of the main complaints is that kids are missing school. You're low information so probably don't know that.

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason the mandate has been dropped in DC is because there is a lawsuit from private school families. Good for them. Not sure how long it will be for DCPS though.

Lol. No. This is hysterical.

Why is it hysterical? Do you think the lawsuit had nothing to do with it?

It absolutely had everything to do with the lawsuit. Bowser had every intention of keeping the mandate in place for the unforeseen future.

Four days ago, the DC SBOE released this statement:



Two days later, there was one law suit filed and another threat of a lawsuit. Within less than 24 hours, Bowser lifted the mandate, but kept DCPS mandate in place.

If this didn't have a hand in it, please do tell me what did.

It is surprising to me how few people know what was going on behind the scenes and that there were a few parents from Catholic parochial schools actually taking action to get their schools back to normal. They are my heroes.

Yes they have done us a huge public service.

It’s surprising to me how little people understand causation and coincidence

How is this a coincidence? The announcement from DC SBOE specifically said it would take a month to make any changes, and then 2 days later they switched to mask optional. THAT is not a coincidence.

The SBOE doesn't set the DOH or DC schools policies/plans related to COVID mitigation. The Mayor, DME, Department of Health, and those agencies that do set the policies (and can change them) were working on this already. It's a coincidence.

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Anonymous wrote:It won't matter at our school. I'm convinced that even if they lift the mandate, our school admin and most teacher and families will choose to continue masking. And I'm not going to force my kid to mask, so they will also continue masking because it will be what everyone in their class is doing. The explanation will be that there are immunocompromised people around (it won't matter if these are really people with a Covid vulnerability -- there are people at our school who are convinced they are more vulnerable because they have a relative with heart disease or their thyroid is sometimes out of whack).

Since they dropped the outdoor mandate, I've seen exactly 1 unmasked teacher during pick up and zero unmasked parents. And this is outside.

It doesn't matter what DCPS does. The people at our school have convinced themselves that masking is the only way to protect themselves and others, and that we should do it until there is no more Covid at all. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Why do you feel the need to say anything to them about their choice to mask? It doesn’t impact you.

Clearly it does impact her if this attitude is what drives policy at her charter.

No it doesn’t because they’re talking about a mask optional policy and ppl choosing to mask. So again what’s the issue?

I would like my child to get more mask free time with teachers snd peers, seeing and I get acting with their whole faces. I have seen some troubling issues around socialization that I think are exacerbated by (and harder to address) due to masks. But if everyone else continues to mask, thus won’t change for me kid. Plus she will likely keep masking herself, in order to fit in.

I believe, based on the recommendations of public health experts, that it is safe to unmask at school, especially with asymptomatic testing, a strict policy of keeping symptomatic kids home, and low case rates overall. It is frustrating to me that this is not enough for other members of my school community. I don’t understand the desire to continue to rely on masks, which were not effective during omicron, when we have other tools at our disposal that don’t inhibit learning and socializing.

I have no problem with people masking if they need/want to. But when 99% of my school chooses to mask, it raises the question of whether it’s the right place for us.

We are at our IB DCPS, btw. I’ve never wanted to leave for any other reason.

Asymptomatic is just as bad as the pointless masking of children. Why on earth should we be testing perfectly healthy children who aren’t sick? Asymptomatic means you aren’t sick.

Schools need to move on from covid and focus on educating our children. All of this has gotten out of hand.

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Schools should not act in defiance of official public health standards. They do not have the expertise or authority to act as medical directors of children’s health. Follow the CDC and move on already.

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But with the testing you have always been able to opt out.

But DCPS isn't even competent enough to keep a list of kids who are opted out by their parents. We opted out both our sons, yet Hardy MS still tested our oldest last week. I had to go down and make a scene at the office to make sure it won't happen again

Why don’t you want DCPS to test them? And why can’t your middle schooler tell the school their parent opted them out?

Because asymptomatic testing is a waste of time and resources. We shouldn't be disrupting the lives of kids like this anymore.

He told them, and they didn't listen. Which is why I had to go down there and threaten the principal and the testing people with lawsuits for assault. Sometimes, you need to yell to get people to pay attention.

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Anonymous wrote:It won't matter at our school. I'm convinced that even if they lift the mandate, our school admin and most teacher and families will choose to continue masking. And I'm not going to force my kid to mask, so they will also continue masking because it will be what everyone in their class is doing. The explanation will be that there are immunocompromised people around (it won't matter if these are really people with a Covid vulnerability -- there are people at our school who are convinced they are more vulnerable because they have a relative with heart disease or their thyroid is sometimes out of whack).

Since they dropped the outdoor mandate, I've seen exactly 1 unmasked teacher during pick up and zero unmasked parents. And this is outside.

It doesn't matter what DCPS does. The people at our school have convinced themselves that masking is the only way to protect themselves and others, and that we should do it until there is no more Covid at all. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Why do you feel the need to say anything to them about their choice to mask? It doesn’t impact you.

Clearly it does impact her if this attitude is what drives policy at her charter.

This. Asymptomatic testing is crazy. Asymptomatic = NOT SICK. Perfectly healthy children do not need their local school testing them for viruses on a regular basis. This insanity needs to stop.



No it doesn’t because they’re talking about a mask optional policy and ppl choosing to mask. So again what’s the issue?

I would like my child to get more mask free time with teachers snd peers, seeing and I get acting with their whole faces. I have seen some troubling issues around socialization that I think are exacerbated by (and harder to address) due to masks. But if everyone else continues to mask, thus won’t change for me kid. Plus she will likely keep masking herself, in order to fit in.

I believe, based on the recommendations of public health experts, that it is safe to unmask at school, especially with asymptomatic testing, a strict policy of keeping symptomatic kids home, and low case rates overall. It is frustrating to me that this is not enough for other members of my school community. I don’t understand the desire to continue to rely on masks, which were not effective during omicron, when we have other tools at our disposal that don’t inhibit learning and socializing.

I have no problem with people masking if they need/want to. But when 99% of my school chooses to mask, it raises the question of whether it’s the right place for us.

We are at our IB DCPS, btw. I’ve never wanted to leave for any other reason.

Asymptomatic is just as bad as the pointless masking of children. Why on earth should we be testing perfectly healthy children who aren’t sick? Asymptomatic means you aren’t sick.

Schools need to move on from covid and focus on educating our children. All of this has gotten out of hand.

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Schools should not act in defiance of official public health standards. They do not have the expertise or authority to act as medical directors of children’s health. Follow the CDC and move on already.

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But with the testing you have always been able to opt out.

But DCPS isn't even competent enough to keep a list of kids who are opted out by their parents. We opted out both our sons, yet Hardy MS still tested our oldest last week. I had to go down and make a scene at the office to make sure it won't happen again

Why don’t you want DCPS to test them? And why can’t your middle schooler tell the school their parent opted them out?

Because asymptomatic testing is a waste of time and resources. We shouldn't be disrupting the lives of kids like this anymore.

He told them, and they didn't listen. Which is why I had to go down there and threaten the principal and the testing people with lawsuits for assault. Sometimes, you need to yell to get people to pay attention.

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Anonymous wrote:It won't matter at our school. I'm convinced that even if they lift the mandate, our school admin and most teacher and families will choose to continue masking. And I'm not going to force my kid to mask, so they will also continue masking because it will be what everyone in their class is doing. The explanation will be that there are immunocompromised people around (it won't matter if these are really people with a Covid vulnerability -- there are people at our school who are convinced they are more vulnerable because they have a relative with heart disease or their thyroid is sometimes out of whack).

Since they dropped the outdoor mandate, I've seen exactly 1 unmasked teacher during pick up and zero unmasked parents. And this is outside.

It doesn't matter what DCPS does. The people at our school have convinced themselves that masking is the only way to protect themselves and others, and that we should do it until there is no more Covid at all. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Why do you feel the need to say anything to them about their choice to mask? It doesn’t impact you.

Clearly it does impact her if this attitude is what drives policy at her charter.

This. Asymptomatic testing is crazy. Asymptomatic = NOT SICK. Perfectly healthy children do not need their local school testing them for viruses on a regular basis. This insanity needs to stop.



No it doesn’t because they’re talking about a mask optional policy and ppl choosing to mask. So again what’s the issue?

I would like my child to get more mask free time with teachers snd peers, seeing and I get acting with their whole faces. I have seen some troubling issues around socialization that I think are exacerbated by (and harder to address) due to masks. But if everyone else continues to mask, thus won’t change for me kid. Plus she will likely keep masking herself, in order to fit in.

I believe, based on the recommendations of public health experts, that it is safe to unmask at school, especially with asymptomatic testing, a strict policy of keeping symptomatic kids home, and low case rates overall. It is frustrating to me that this is not enough for other members of my school community. I don’t understand the desire to continue to rely on masks, which were not effective during omicron, when we have other tools at our disposal that don’t inhibit learning and socializing.

I have no problem with people masking if they need/want to. But when 99% of my school chooses to mask, it raises the question of whether it’s the right place for us.

We are at our IB DCPS, btw. I’ve never wanted to leave for any other reason.

Asymptomatic is just as bad as the pointless masking of children. Why on earth should we be testing perfectly healthy children who aren’t sick? Asymptomatic means you aren’t sick.

Schools need to move on from covid and focus on educating our children. All of this has gotten out of hand.

+1
Schools should not act in defiance of official public health standards. They do not have the expertise or authority to act as medical directors of children’s health. Follow the CDC and move on already.

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But with the testing you have always been able to opt out.

But DCPS isn't even competent enough to keep a list of kids who are opted out by their parents. We opted out both our sons, yet Hardy MS still tested our oldest last week. I had to go down and make a scene at the office to make sure it won't happen again

Why don’t you want DCPS to test them? And why can’t your middle schooler tell the school their parent opted them out?

Because asymptomatic testing is a waste of time and resources. We shouldn't be disrupting the lives of kids like this anymore.

He told them, and they didn't listen. Which is why I had to go down there and threaten the principal and the testing people with lawsuits for assault. Sometimes, you need to yell to get people to pay attention.

This. Asymptomatic testing is crazy. Asymptomatic = NOT SICK. Perfectly healthy children do not need their local school testing them for viruses on a regular basis. This insanity needs to stop.

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Anonymous wrote:The point is that a parent is allowed to opt their child out of testing and yet the school tests the kid anyway. It doesn’t matter what you think of the parent’s decision.

No, mother in question is an obvious nutter who is showing up at her kid's school to yell at teachers/administrators during, e.g., a pandemic, and WWIII brewing - because her MS child (who probably agrees mother is a nutter with lack of boundaries) was tested for a virus..."Testing is bad" is Trumpian AF.

DP, but you really don't know why someone opted out of testing. Try to have an iota of empathy.

You wouldn't be ok if you, the parent, specifically told a school you did not want them to perform a medical test on your child, and yet they did so anyway.

Right. That's the point- we specifically opted out in compliance with DCPS procedures, and my son told them we had opted him out. In any other context, performing a medical test when someone has specifically opted out would constitute assault. The principal and the testing people knew they screwed up, and actually admitted so in an e-mail where they assured us it would never happen again.

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Anonymous wrote:It won't matter at our school. I'm convinced that even if they lift the mandate, our school admin and most teacher and families will choose to continue masking. And I'm not going to force my kid to mask, so they will also continue masking because it will be what everyone in their class is doing. The explanation will be that there are immunocompromised people around (it won't matter if these are really people with a Covid vulnerability -- there are people at our school who are convinced they are more vulnerable because they have a relative with heart disease or their thyroid is sometimes out of whack).

Since they dropped the outdoor mandate, I've seen exactly 1 unmasked teacher during pick up and zero unmasked parents. And this is outside.

It doesn't matter what DCPS does. The people at our school have convinced themselves that masking is the only way to protect themselves and others, and that we should do it until there is no more Covid at all. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Why do you feel the need to say anything to them about their choice to mask? It doesn’t impact you.

Clearly it does impact her if this attitude is what drives policy at her charter.

This. Asymptomatic testing is crazy. Asymptomatic = NOT SICK. Perfectly healthy children do not need their local school testing them for viruses on a regular basis. This insanity needs to stop.



No it doesn’t because they’re talking about a mask optional policy and ppl choosing to mask. So again what’s the issue?

I would like my child to get more mask free time with teachers snd peers, seeing and I get acting with their whole faces. I have seen some troubling issues around socialization that I think are exacerbated by (and harder to address) due to masks. But if everyone else continues to mask, thus won’t change for me kid. Plus she will likely keep masking herself, in order to fit in.

I believe, based on the recommendations of public health experts, that it is safe to unmask at school, especially with asymptomatic testing, a strict policy of keeping symptomatic kids home, and low case rates overall. It is frustrating to me that this is not enough for other members of my school community. I don’t understand the desire to continue to rely on masks, which were not effective during omicron, when we have other tools at our disposal that don’t inhibit learning and socializing.

I have no problem with people masking if they need/want to. But when 99% of my school chooses to mask, it raises the question of whether it’s the right place for us.

We are at our IB DCPS, btw. I’ve never wanted to leave for any other reason.

Asymptomatic is just as bad as the pointless masking of children. Why on earth should we be testing perfectly healthy children who aren’t sick? Asymptomatic means you aren’t sick.

Schools need to move on from covid and focus on educating our children. All of this has gotten out of hand.

+1
Schools should not act in defiance of official public health standards. They do not have the expertise or authority to act as medical directors of children’s health. Follow the CDC and move on already.

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But with the testing you have always been able to opt out.

But DCPS isn't even competent enough to keep a list of kids who are opted out by their parents. We opted out both our sons, yet Hardy MS still tested our oldest last week. I had to go down and make a scene at the office to make sure it won't happen again

Why don’t you want DCPS to test them? And why can’t your middle schooler tell the school their parent opted them out?

Because asymptomatic testing is a waste of time and resources. We shouldn't be disrupting the lives of kids like this anymore.

He told them, and they didn't listen. Which is why I had to go down there and threaten the principal and the testing people with lawsuits for assault. Sometimes, you need to yell to get people to pay attention.

This. Asymptomatic testing is crazy. Asymptomatic = NOT SICK. Perfectly healthy children do not need their local school testing them for viruses on a regular basis. This insanity needs to stop.

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:The point is that a parent is allowed to opt their child out of testing and yet the school tests the kid anyway. It doesn’t matter what you think of the parent’s decision.

No, mother in question is an obvious nutter who is showing up at her kid's school to yell at teachers/administrators during, e.g., a pandemic, and WWIII brewing - because her MS child (who probably agrees mother is a nutter with lack of boundaries) was tested for a virus..."Testing is bad" is Trumpian AF.

DP, but you really don't know why someone opted out of testing. Try to have an iota of empathy.

You wouldn't be ok if you, the parent, specifically told a school you did not want them to perform a medical test on your child, and yet they did so anyway.

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I would be pissed if the school performed a medical test on my child that I opted out of. And all of you saying this parent is a ‘nutter’ would flip out about that too. If the school can’t keep track of that you better be worried about them keeping track of your child’s accommodations on standardized tests or your child’s medication that they need to administer at school or that your child has an allergy to a certain food.

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Yeah, I don’t really care about asymptomatic testing, but I do care about a school following a parental choice on a medical test. That’s a fundamental point, COVID measures aside.

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Anonymous wrote:The point is that a parent is allowed to opt their child out of testing and yet the school tests the kid anyway. It doesn’t matter what you think of the parent’s decision.

No, mother in question is an obvious nutter who is showing up at her kid's school to yell at teachers/administrators during, e.g., a pandemic, and WWIII brewing - because her MS child (who probably agrees mother is a nutter with lack of boundaries) was tested for a virus..."Testing is bad" is Trumpian AF.

DP, but you really don't know why someone opted out of testing. Try to have an iota of empathy.

You wouldn't be ok if you, the parent, specifically told a school you did not want them to perform a medical test on your in child, and yet they did so anyway.

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I would be pissed if the school performed a medical test on my child that I opted out of. And all of you saying this parent is a ‘nutter’ would flip out about that too. If the school can’t keep track of that you better be worried about them keeping track of your child’s accommodations on standardized tests or your child’s medication that they need to administer at school or that your child has an allergy to a certain food.

I agree. Most people would object to the school taking a DNA sample from their child without permission. The Covid test is the same sample; we’re just going on trust about how it’s used.

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Anonymous wrote:It won't matter at our school. I'm convinced that even if they lift the mandate, our school admin and most teacher and families will choose to continue masking. And I'm not going to force my kid to mask, so they will also continue masking because it will be what everyone in their class is doing. The explanation will be that there are immunocompromised people around (it won't matter if these are really people with a Covid vulnerability -- there are people at our school who are convinced they are more vulnerable because they have a relative with heart disease or their thyroid is sometimes out of whack).

Since they dropped the outdoor mandate, I've seen exactly 1 unmasked teacher during pick up and zero unmasked parents. And this is outside.

It doesn't matter what DCPS does. The people at our school have convinced themselves that masking is the only way to protect themselves and others, and that we should do it until there is no more Covid at all. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Why do you feel the need to say anything to them about their choice to mask? It doesn’t impact you.

Clearly it does impact her if this attitude is what drives policy at her charter.

No it doesn’t because they’re talking about a mask optional policy and ppl choosing to mask. So again what’s the issue?

I would like my child to get more mask free time with teachers snd peers, seeing and I get acting with their whole faces. I have seen some troubling issues around socialization that I think are exacerbated by (and harder to address) due to masks. But if everyone else continues to mask, thus won’t change for me kid. Plus she will likely keep masking herself, in order to fit in.

I believe, based on the recommendations of public health experts, that it is safe to unmask at school, especially with asymptomatic testing, a strict policy of keeping symptomatic kids home, and low case rates overall. It is frustrating to me that this is not enough for other members of my school community. I don’t understand the desire to continue to rely on masks, which were not effective during omicron, when we have other tools at our disposal that don’t inhibit learning and socializing.

I have no problem with people masking if they need/want to. But when 99% of my school chooses to mask, it raises the question of whether it’s the right place for us.

We are at our IB DCPS, btw. I’ve never wanted to leave for any other reason.

Asymptomatic is just as bad as the pointless masking of children. Why on earth should we be testing perfectly healthy children who aren’t sick? Asymptomatic means you aren’t sick.

Schools need to move on from covid and focus on educating our children. All of this has gotten out of hand.

+1
Schools should not act in defiance of official public health standards. They do not have the expertise or authority to act as medical directors of children’s health. Follow the CDC and move on already.

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But with the testing you have always been able to opt out.

But DCPS isn't even competent enough to keep a list of kids who are opted out by their parents. We opted out both our sons, yet Hardy MS still tested our oldest last week. I had to go down and make a scene at the office to make sure it won't happen again

What a nutter.

Is this a comment on the benefits of subjecting children to unnecessary medical tests, or one on how it's a good thing if schools can't keep track of who they're allowed to do medical tests on, or both?

It’s spitting in a tube. Calm down no electrodes are involved

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Anonymous wrote:It won't matter at our school. I'm convinced that even if they lift the mandate, our school admin and most teacher and families will choose to continue masking. And I'm not going to force my kid to mask, so they will also continue masking because it will be what everyone in their class is doing. The explanation will be that there are immunocompromised people around (it won't matter if these are really people with a Covid vulnerability -- there are people at our school who are convinced they are more vulnerable because they have a relative with heart disease or their thyroid is sometimes out of whack).

Since they dropped the outdoor mandate, I've seen exactly 1 unmasked teacher during pick up and zero unmasked parents. And this is outside.

It doesn't matter what DCPS does. The people at our school have convinced themselves that masking is the only way to protect themselves and others, and that we should do it until there is no more Covid at all. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Why do you feel the need to say anything to them about their choice to mask? It doesn’t impact you.

Clearly it does impact her if this attitude is what drives policy at her charter.

No it doesn’t because they’re talking about a mask optional policy and ppl choosing to mask. So again what’s the issue?

I would like my child to get more mask free time with teachers snd peers, seeing and I get acting with their whole faces. I have seen some troubling issues around socialization that I think are exacerbated by (and harder to address) due to masks. But if everyone else continues to mask, thus won’t change for me kid. Plus she will likely keep masking herself, in order to fit in.

I believe, based on the recommendations of public health experts, that it is safe to unmask at school, especially with asymptomatic testing, a strict policy of keeping symptomatic kids home, and low case rates overall. It is frustrating to me that this is not enough for other members of my school community. I don’t understand the desire to continue to rely on masks, which were not effective during omicron, when we have other tools at our disposal that don’t inhibit learning and socializing.

I have no problem with people masking if they need/want to. But when 99% of my school chooses to mask, it raises the question of whether it’s the right place for us.

We are at our IB DCPS, btw. I’ve never wanted to leave for any other reason.

Asymptomatic is just as bad as the pointless masking of children. Why on earth should we be testing perfectly healthy children who aren’t sick? Asymptomatic means you aren’t sick.

Schools need to move on from covid and focus on educating our children. All of this has gotten out of hand.

+1
Schools should not act in defiance of official public health standards. They do not have the expertise or authority to act as medical directors of children’s health. Follow the CDC and move on already.

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But with the testing you have always been able to opt out.

But DCPS isn't even competent enough to keep a list of kids who are opted out by their parents. We opted out both our sons, yet Hardy MS still tested our oldest last week. I had to go down and make a scene at the office to make sure it won't happen again

What a nutter.

Is this a comment on the benefits of subjecting children to unnecessary medical tests, or one on how it's a good thing if schools can't keep track of who they're allowed to do medical tests on, or both?

It’s spitting in a tube. Calm down no electrodes are involved

Another person missing the point.

Consent is a pretty important concept, don't you think?

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason the mandate has been dropped in DC is because there is a lawsuit from private school families. Good for them. Not sure how long it will be for DCPS though.

Lol. No. This is hysterical.

Why is it hysterical? Do you think the lawsuit had nothing to do with it?

It absolutely had everything to do with the lawsuit. Bowser had every intention of keeping the mandate in place for the unforeseen future.

Four days ago, the DC SBOE released this statement:



Two days later, there was one law suit filed and another threat of a lawsuit. Within less than 24 hours, Bowser lifted the mandate, but kept DCPS mandate in place.

If this didn't have a hand in it, please do tell me what did.

It is surprising to me how few people know what was going on behind the scenes and that there were a few parents from Catholic parochial schools actually taking action to get their schools back to normal. They are my heroes.

Yes they have done us a huge public service.

It’s surprising to me how little people understand causation and coincidence

How is this a coincidence? The announcement from DC SBOE specifically said it would take a month to make any changes, and then 2 days later they switched to mask optional. THAT is not a coincidence.

The SBOE doesn't set the DOH or DC schools policies/plans related to COVID mitigation. The Mayor, DME, Department of Health, and those agencies that do set the policies (and can change them) were working on this already. It's a coincidence.

Yeah right.

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason the mandate has been dropped in DC is because there is a lawsuit from private school families. Good for them. Not sure how long it will be for DCPS though.

Lol. No. This is hysterical.

Why is it hysterical? Do you think the lawsuit had nothing to do with it?

It absolutely had everything to do with the lawsuit. Bowser had every intention of keeping the mandate in place for the unforeseen future.

Four days ago, the DC SBOE released this statement:



Two days later, there was one law suit filed and another threat of a lawsuit. Within less than 24 hours, Bowser lifted the mandate, but kept DCPS mandate in place.

If this didn't have a hand in it, please do tell me what did.

It is surprising to me how few people know what was going on behind the scenes and that there were a few parents from Catholic parochial schools actually taking action to get their schools back to normal. They are my heroes.

Yes they have done us a huge public service.

It’s surprising to me how little people understand causation and coincidence

How is this a coincidence? The announcement from DC SBOE specifically said it would take a month to make any changes, and then 2 days later they switched to mask optional. THAT is not a coincidence.

The SBOE doesn't set the DOH or DC schools policies/plans related to COVID mitigation. The Mayor, DME, Department of Health, and those agencies that do set the policies (and can change them) were working on this already. It's a coincidence.

It's not a coincidence.

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So, do you think today the day DCPS lifts the mandate? If so, starting Monday, or after Spring Break?


Scott Gelman
@Gelman_Scott
Per @ValerieBonk, at event today, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says she expects DCPS Chancellor Lewis Ferebee to decide on mask policy moving forward as soon as tomorrow.
12:14 PM · Mar 10, 2022·Twitter for iPhone



https://twitter.com/Gelman_Scott/status/1501969652695670792?cxt=HHwWkIC9xZ_ciNgpAAAA