Diocese of Arlington Schools - Covid closings?

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I agree staffing is the man obstacle, but do schools stay open if only 50% are able to attend, either because of infection or exposure?

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Anonymous wrote:I agree staffing is the man obstacle, but do schools stay open if only 50% are able to attend, either because of infection or exposure?

Correction: “If only 50% of students are in school.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone keeps using this word "safe". Omicron isn't a meaningful threat to children. Cases are up, but hospitalizations are flat. Your children are safer today than they were a year ago when no one was testing, we knew less about the virus, the virus was more deadly, and we lacked treatments for it. Your kid is more likely to die on the walk/drive to school than from COVID at this point.

We can have discussions about appropriate mitigations (I'm for them). But it's important to keep things in perspective here. Failing to do everything possible to mitigate omicron in school isn't actually going to meaningfully threaten your kids.

Except hospitalizations are up.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/child-covid-hospitalizations-are-5-states-are-rise-rcna10089

Not in DC brainiac. But keep fear mongering

Sorry, brainiac. Can you help me parse this sentence then?

“The number of kids hospitalized with Covid has more than doubled in 10 states, as well as in Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, according to the analysis.”

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Anonymous wrote:Schools going back next week without testing are showing poor leadership. Leadership involves making hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Schools prefer to not be viewed as making decisions or imposing “requirements” that some people may dislike. The same goes for schools not strongly encouraging student vaccines for those kids who are eligible.

Instead, they will bring everyone back and when they don’t have enough staff to teach, or when too many children are sick, they’ll shut it down and go virtual. It’ll be a chaotic couple weeks at these schools.

“Our priority is in person learning” (already stated in this thread) seems admirable on its face. But, if the priority truly was in person learning they would be doing everything possible to stay open. They’d be testing, they’d be implementing stronger mitigations, they’d be encouraging every family to vaccinate. That’s how they can actually stay open and fulfill their missions.

I just don’t see how the logistics of testing everyone would work in a K-8 parochial school. Where would the tests come from?

I was about to say something similar. We are not in Arlington but in a small Maryland private school, and I just don’t think they have the means for school-wide testing.

Most of the families at Catholic schools don’t believe in Covid and want masks removed. There’s no way that they would agree to testing their kids. I know families that are Covid positive and plan to send their kids to school with a “cold”.

Yeah, no.

It’s possible that it’s not the case in MD. Visit any VA school and ask about the petitions generated to end masking. Seriously.

Absolutely not the case in our K-8 school in the Arlington Diocese.

Agree. My 3rd grader is a class full of vaccinated children.

A lot of my children’s classmates are vaccinated. There is also a strong and small very vocal minority who want no masks, no vaccines, and no mitigation requirements. They are super vocal. It is very strange.

Disappointing if schools would not implement measures in fear of a vocal minority. Let them leave and homeschool if they don’t want to be in a school that implements health and safety measures that can enable them to do what they are there to do — teach.

Testing as a minimum mitigation should be non controversial. If you are negative and stay negative, welcome back. Simple as that.

This hasn’t been the case (our school has good mitigation measures), but they are relentless. It is quite something.

We are leaving St James in Falls Church because of this. So many parents are sending their kids to school sick. There’s no testing. No mask wearing outside of school.

I’m sorry. That would stress me too. I’d just offer that I don’t think you will find it any different any place else.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone keeps using this word "safe". Omicron isn't a meaningful threat to children. Cases are up, but hospitalizations are flat. Your children are safer today than they were a year ago when no one was testing, we knew less about the virus, the virus was more deadly, and we lacked treatments for it. Your kid is more likely to die on the walk/drive to school than from COVID at this point.

We can have discussions about appropriate mitigations (I'm for them). But it's important to keep things in perspective here. Failing to do everything possible to mitigate omicron in school isn't actually going to meaningfully threaten your kids.

Except hospitalizations are up.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/child-covid-hospitalizations-are-5-states-are-rise-rcna10089

Not in DC brainiac. But keep fear mongering

Sorry, brainiac. Can you help me parse this sentence then?

“The number of kids hospitalized with Covid has more than doubled in 10 states, as well as in Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, according to the analysis.”

If you read the rest of the thread before calling people names you’d see there’s a difference between child hospitalizations and all hospitalizations. You’d also see Antony Fauci explaining that the child hospitalization figure isn’t worth panicking over.

Try to keep up.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone keeps using this word "safe". Omicron isn't a meaningful threat to children. Cases are up, but hospitalizations are flat. Your children are safer today than they were a year ago when no one was testing, we knew less about the virus, the virus was more deadly, and we lacked treatments for it. Your kid is more likely to die on the walk/drive to school than from COVID at this point.

We can have discussions about appropriate mitigations (I'm for them). But it's important to keep things in perspective here. Failing to do everything possible to mitigate omicron in school isn't actually going to meaningfully threaten your kids.

Except hospitalizations are up.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/child-covid-hospitalizations-are-5-states-are-rise-rcna10089

Not in DC brainiac. But keep fear mongering

Sorry, brainiac. Can you help me parse this sentence then?

“The number of kids hospitalized with Covid has more than doubled in 10 states, as well as in Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, according to the analysis.”

If you read the rest of the thread before calling people names you’d see there’s a difference between child hospitalizations and all hospitalizations. You’d also see Antony Fauci explaining that the child hospitalization figure isn’t worth panicking over.

Try to keep up.

DP. Here to watch the nasty Catholic moms live their values.

You seem like a peach, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread knowing that an ADW grade school teacher died from COVID over Christmas break sure is something.

Had not heard this!! So sad! What school was this? We are Diocese of Arlington and I had not heard this. My condolences and prayers for this teacher, his/her family, friends, and relatives. :*(

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The question is, “What would Jesus do?”

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Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread knowing that an ADW grade school teacher died from COVID over Christmas break sure is something.

Had not heard this!! So sad! What school was this? We are Diocese of Arlington and I had not heard this. My condolences and prayers for this teacher, his/her family, friends, and relatives. :*(

HT in Georgetown. It’s very sad. It was hard breaking the news to our daughter.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread knowing that an ADW grade school teacher died from COVID over Christmas break sure is something.

Had not heard this!! So sad! What school was this? We are Diocese of Arlington and I had not heard this. My condolences and prayers for this teacher, his/her family, friends, and relatives. :*(

HT in Georgetown. It’s very sad. It was hard breaking the news to our daughter.

Wow. Great little school. That hits home. So very sorry ((((

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Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread knowing that an ADW grade school teacher died from COVID over Christmas break sure is something.

Had not heard this!! So sad! What school was this? We are Diocese of Arlington and I had not heard this. My condolences and prayers for this teacher, his/her family, friends, and relatives. :*(

HT in Georgetown. It’s very sad. It was hard breaking the news to our daughter.

Oh no! That is so sad.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread knowing that an ADW grade school teacher died from COVID over Christmas break sure is something.

Had not heard this!! So sad! What school was this? We are Diocese of Arlington and I had not heard this. My condolences and prayers for this teacher, his/her family, friends, and relatives. :*(

HT in Georgetown. It’s very sad. It was hard breaking the news to our daughter.

I am so so sorry. We got married at HT. You all are in my prayers. :*(

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Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread knowing that an ADW grade school teacher died from COVID over Christmas break sure is something.

I am so sorry to hear this.

Will pray for them.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s a petition going around to ask st Ann to reconsider its week of virtual learning. They seem to have gone off the deep end and apparently require outdoor masking.

Just a new family trying to "shake things up a bit" at a school that has been around for over 70 years.

Bless...

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Have any schools changed their re-opening plans due to covid test results?

Ours continues to be: no testing and no new mitigation plans, oh, except now masks do not need to be worn outside. Just awesome! I guess they are counting on having kids more sociall distanced due to many absences!