Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?

[Anonymous]

Or what do you think is likely?

[Anonymous]

Nothing yet. Since we never stopped having to mask last year, I'm afraid that'll still be a requirement. But I hope I'm wrong.

[Anonymous]

This thread will be useless if people don't state the school. Precautions may vary a lot from school to school because unlike last year when charters largely followed DCPS, I think we will see more differences based on what the teachers, administration, and school community is comfortable with. I think some charters will be much more restrictive than DCPS (mask, testing, maybe even vaccine requirements depending on age), I think others will be less restrictive around things like quarantine times.

So please share the name of the school if you have actual info about who has announced what. It may be helpful to people who are going to get offers off the waitlist in August.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread will be useless if people don't state the school. Precautions may vary a lot from school to school because unlike last year when charters largely followed DCPS, I think we will see more differences based on what the teachers, administration, and school community is comfortable with. I think some charters will be much more restrictive than DCPS (mask, testing, maybe even vaccine requirements depending on age), I think others will be less restrictive around things like quarantine times.

So please share the name of the school if you have actual info about who has announced what. It may be helpful to people who are going to get offers off the waitlist in August.

from the sound of it based on past threads, the bolded is untrue. Many charters didn't drop mask mandates, for example, when DCPS did.

[Anonymous]

How embarrassing it will be for any charter that requires masks in 2022.

[Anonymous]

No word yet from our school but they usually don’t start sharing info about the upcoming school year until august sometime.

Our school kept indoor masking which at first bothered me, but then my kid didn’t get/bring home COVID. Feels less worrisome now with the new boosters coming out

[Anonymous]

LAMB ended the school year with 20% asymptomatic testing + masks. Masks were technically only mandatory if the community level was in "low" and there was something like 5 or fewer cases at school in a 7-day period. Which meant we had one week of mask-optional.

The LAMB summer camp required masks, full stop.

Parents weren't really allowed in the building, which meant there was some loss of community. Zoom events just don't do it.

They've announced that they will send out info later, but I'm imagining it'll be more of the same in the Fall.

[Anonymous]

I'm hoping our charter drops the mask requirement. It's gone far too long. And it's pointless when no one is wearing them anywhere else anymore and vaccines and testing are readily available.

[Anonymous]

Our family caught covid once. From a child in a charter school that had a mask mandate. The mandate did nothing to stop the spread as far as I can tell. Nearly half the class caught it anyways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm hoping our charter drops the mask requirement. It's gone far too long. And it's pointless when no one is wearing them anywhere else anymore and vaccines and testing are readily available.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

the cdc says 85 percent of kids in dc have already had covid. so apparently closing schools, masking and all the other stuff we did to try to stop it amounted to jack sh*t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our family caught covid once. From a child in a charter school that had a mask mandate. The mandate did nothing to stop the spread as far as I can tell. Nearly half the class caught it anyways.

It’s because kids are not masking well. I’m a teacher in another school division and many of my students pull down there cute little kn95 when they talk to people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our family caught covid once. From a child in a charter school that had a mask mandate. The mandate did nothing to stop the spread as far as I can tell. Nearly half the class caught it anyways.

It’s because kids are not masking well. I’m a teacher in another school division and many of my students pull down there cute little kn95 when they talk to people.

And, as you may know from avoiding pregnancies and STDs, being indoors unmasked together for an hour every day for lunch provides COVID its opportunity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the cdc says 85 percent of kids in dc have already had covid. so apparently closing schools, masking and all the other stuff we did to try to stop it amounted to jack sh*t.

This.

There needs to be proof that these mitigation measures are actually effective. Without any data showing that masks/vaccine mandates/school closures actually are a difference, we need to life these useless policies.

[Anonymous]

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