APS - School on Monday?

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Anonymous wrote:^^ NP. I bet they also have BLM signs in the yard of their McMansions in their non-diverse UMC neighborhoods and expected their nannies and house cleaners to come to work in person.

Yes. They originally wrung their hands about whether to allow the cleaning lady to return but finally it was just too much! Of course, the cleaning crew has to stay masked the whole time while doing the manual labor and keep all the windows open regardless of the temperature.

And they only get takeout, which as we know is prepared by magic fairies, who get to work definitely not on public transportation.

Also all their packages are delivered by Amazon and those orders are fulfilled in covid-free warehouses filled with air purified 1700 times per minute.

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Anonymous wrote:Alright, I need someone to give it to me straight. What are we thinking for Monday re staffing? Please tell me my kids will be in school..

100% chance they will be in school early in the week. Later in the week, who knows. Depends how bad it goes w/ substitutes.

Agree. And next week is totally up in the air once those masks come off in the cafeteria!

They should eat outside.

I agree 100, but on the ice?

Our school eats outside if its above 32 degrees, its not even going to hit 30 degrees on tuesday. No kid should eat outside in weather than cold, don't be insane.

[Anonymous]

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If there arenlt enough teachers to teach, there will be even more learning loss from cancelled classes like in NYC. You don't seem to have a plan for that besides let it rip through, which isn't a plan.

It seems like letting it rip through schools is better for kids than the quarantine measures in their place.

With quarantining, unvaccinated kids can be quarantining for months, worst case scenario. They quarantine for 10 days, someone in the classroom tests positive, we go back into quarantine. Then we go back to school and someone else is positive. And on and on for like 25 kids x 10+ days of quarantining.

If we just let it take it’s course, that seems better. Maybe a teacher gets sick and we have to be out five days, like we might if a teacher had a cold. Then we can get back to learning the rest of the year. If kids get sick, they are just out until they are 24 hrs without a fever, like a cold. Its the unvaccinated, elderly, and cancer patients that are at risk and filling up hospitals. Let them quarantine. Don’t ask extremely low risk kids to quarantine consecutively.

I know it seems cavalier, but we were pretty cavalier about the cold and even the flu for healthy kids before covid. The data shows covid presents less risk than the flu for vaccinated adults and even unvaccinated kids. I thought the end goal was to get this point—covid will be another endemic illness like the cold and flu and we just live with those risks without even considering policies that may result in kids out of class for half a year.

All kids 5+ can get vaccinated. 12+ can get boosted if over 5 months.

At this point I don't have any sympathy for a 10 day quarantine for unvaccinated. If you don't like it, get your kid vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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If there arenlt enough teachers to teach, there will be even more learning loss from cancelled classes like in NYC. You don't seem to have a plan for that besides let it rip through, which isn't a plan.

It seems like letting it rip through schools is better for kids than the quarantine measures in their place.

With quarantining, unvaccinated kids can be quarantining for months, worst case scenario. They quarantine for 10 days, someone in the classroom tests positive, we go back into quarantine. Then we go back to school and someone else is positive. And on and on for like 25 kids x 10+ days of quarantining.

If we just let it take it’s course, that seems better. Maybe a teacher gets sick and we have to be out five days, like we might if a teacher had a cold. Then we can get back to learning the rest of the year. If kids get sick, they are just out until they are 24 hrs without a fever, like a cold. Its the unvaccinated, elderly, and cancer patients that are at risk and filling up hospitals. Let them quarantine. Don’t ask extremely low risk kids to quarantine consecutively.

I know it seems cavalier, but we were pretty cavalier about the cold and even the flu for healthy kids before covid. The data shows covid presents less risk than the flu for vaccinated adults and even unvaccinated kids. I thought the end goal was to get this point—covid will be another endemic illness like the cold and flu and we just live with those risks without even considering policies that may result in kids out of class for half a year.

All kids 5+ can get vaccinated. 12+ can get boosted if over 5 months.

At this point I don't have any sympathy for a 10 day quarantine for unvaccinated. If you don't like it, get your kid vaccinated.

Yep. Not sorry antivaxxers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

If there arenlt enough teachers to teach, there will be even more learning loss from cancelled classes like in NYC. You don't seem to have a plan for that besides let it rip through, which isn't a plan.

It seems like letting it rip through schools is better for kids than the quarantine measures in their place.

With quarantining, unvaccinated kids can be quarantining for months, worst case scenario. They quarantine for 10 days, someone in the classroom tests positive, we go back into quarantine. Then we go back to school and someone else is positive. And on and on for like 25 kids x 10+ days of quarantining.

If we just let it take it’s course, that seems better. Maybe a teacher gets sick and we have to be out five days, like we might if a teacher had a cold. Then we can get back to learning the rest of the year. If kids get sick, they are just out until they are 24 hrs without a fever, like a cold. Its the unvaccinated, elderly, and cancer patients that are at risk and filling up hospitals. Let them quarantine. Don’t ask extremely low risk kids to quarantine consecutively.

I know it seems cavalier, but we were pretty cavalier about the cold and even the flu for healthy kids before covid. The data shows covid presents less risk than the flu for vaccinated adults and even unvaccinated kids. I thought the end goal was to get this point—covid will be another endemic illness like the cold and flu and we just live with those risks without even considering policies that may result in kids out of class for half a year.

All kids 5+ can get vaccinated. 12+ can get boosted if over 5 months.

At this point I don't have any sympathy for a 10 day quarantine for unvaccinated. If you don't like it, get your kid vaccinated.

Yep. Not sorry antivaxxers.

80% of 5-11 year olds in the United States are not vaccinated because healthy kids are at statistically 0 risk of complications. Vaccinated 5 to 11 year olds are actually the extreme outlier.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

If there arenlt enough teachers to teach, there will be even more learning loss from cancelled classes like in NYC. You don't seem to have a plan for that besides let it rip through, which isn't a plan.

It seems like letting it rip through schools is better for kids than the quarantine measures in their place.

With quarantining, unvaccinated kids can be quarantining for months, worst case scenario. They quarantine for 10 days, someone in the classroom tests positive, we go back into quarantine. Then we go back to school and someone else is positive. And on and on for like 25 kids x 10+ days of quarantining.

If we just let it take it’s course, that seems better. Maybe a teacher gets sick and we have to be out five days, like we might if a teacher had a cold. Then we can get back to learning the rest of the year. If kids get sick, they are just out until they are 24 hrs without a fever, like a cold. Its the unvaccinated, elderly, and cancer patients that are at risk and filling up hospitals. Let them quarantine. Don’t ask extremely low risk kids to quarantine consecutively.

I know it seems cavalier, but we were pretty cavalier about the cold and even the flu for healthy kids before covid. The data shows covid presents less risk than the flu for vaccinated adults and even unvaccinated kids. I thought the end goal was to get this point—covid will be another endemic illness like the cold and flu and we just live with those risks without even considering policies that may result in kids out of class for half a year.

All kids 5+ can get vaccinated. 12+ can get boosted if over 5 months.

At this point I don't have any sympathy for a 10 day quarantine for unvaccinated. If you don't like it, get your kid vaccinated.

Yep. Not sorry antivaxxers.

80% of 5-11 year olds in the United States are not vaccinated because healthy kids are at statistically 0 risk of complications. Vaccinated 5 to 11 year olds are actually the extreme outlier.

Bring on Youngkin. Soon it will be CDC guidance on isolation, and no quarantine for close contacts. Can't wait! A leader who actually cares about the health of children (which is much, much more than a cold virus in kids).

[Anonymous]

Those of you who keep saying bring on Youngkin.

VDH does not set the isolation and quarantine policies for school districts. They are school district specific and at their discretion. And this is not the type of thing that would go in an executive order.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

If there arenlt enough teachers to teach, there will be even more learning loss from cancelled classes like in NYC. You don't seem to have a plan for that besides let it rip through, which isn't a plan.

It seems like letting it rip through schools is better for kids than the quarantine measures in their place.

With quarantining, unvaccinated kids can be quarantining for months, worst case scenario. They quarantine for 10 days, someone in the classroom tests positive, we go back into quarantine. Then we go back to school and someone else is positive. And on and on for like 25 kids x 10+ days of quarantining.

If we just let it take it’s course, that seems better. Maybe a teacher gets sick and we have to be out five days, like we might if a teacher had a cold. Then we can get back to learning the rest of the year. If kids get sick, they are just out until they are 24 hrs without a fever, like a cold. Its the unvaccinated, elderly, and cancer patients that are at risk and filling up hospitals. Let them quarantine. Don’t ask extremely low risk kids to quarantine consecutively.

I know it seems cavalier, but we were pretty cavalier about the cold and even the flu for healthy kids before covid. The data shows covid presents less risk than the flu for vaccinated adults and even unvaccinated kids. I thought the end goal was to get this point—covid will be another endemic illness like the cold and flu and we just live with those risks without even considering policies that may result in kids out of class for half a year.

All kids 5+ can get vaccinated. 12+ can get boosted if over 5 months.

At this point I don't have any sympathy for a 10 day quarantine for unvaccinated. If you don't like it, get your kid vaccinated.

Yep. Not sorry antivaxxers.

80% of 5-11 year olds in the United States are not vaccinated because healthy kids are at statistically 0 risk of complications. Vaccinated 5 to 11 year olds are actually the extreme outlier.

Then they will have to quarantine longer because their parents are jerks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those of you who keep saying bring on Youngkin.

VDH does not set the isolation and quarantine policies for school districts. They are school district specific and at their discretion. And this is not the type of thing that would go in an executive order.

VDH can issue an emergency health rule, just like Northam did with masks.

Axing close contacts was done already in Florida in the fall:
https://www.flgov.com/2021/09/22/governor-ron-desantis-announces-new-department-of-health-rule-to-protect-healthy-students-from-forced-quarantining/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those of you who keep saying bring on Youngkin.

VDH does not set the isolation and quarantine policies for school districts. They are school district specific and at their discretion. And this is not the type of thing that would go in an executive order.

VDH can issue an emergency health rule, just like Northam did with masks.

Axing close contacts was done already in Florida in the fall:
https://www.flgov.com/2021/09/22/governor-ron-desantis-announces-new-department-of-health-rule-to-protect-healthy-students-from-forced-quarantining/

Bring on Youngkin - 5 days from we get out from under the tyranny of this closed schoolers' dream of a Governor, Ralph Northam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

If there arenlt enough teachers to teach, there will be even more learning loss from cancelled classes like in NYC. You don't seem to have a plan for that besides let it rip through, which isn't a plan.

It seems like letting it rip through schools is better for kids than the quarantine measures in their place.

With quarantining, unvaccinated kids can be quarantining for months, worst case scenario. They quarantine for 10 days, someone in the classroom tests positive, we go back into quarantine. Then we go back to school and someone else is positive. And on and on for like 25 kids x 10+ days of quarantining.

If we just let it take it’s course, that seems better. Maybe a teacher gets sick and we have to be out five days, like we might if a teacher had a cold. Then we can get back to learning the rest of the year. If kids get sick, they are just out until they are 24 hrs without a fever, like a cold. Its the unvaccinated, elderly, and cancer patients that are at risk and filling up hospitals. Let them quarantine. Don’t ask extremely low risk kids to quarantine consecutively.

I know it seems cavalier, but we were pretty cavalier about the cold and even the flu for healthy kids before covid. The data shows covid presents less risk than the flu for vaccinated adults and even unvaccinated kids. I thought the end goal was to get this point—covid will be another endemic illness like the cold and flu and we just live with those risks without even considering policies that may result in kids out of class for half a year.

All kids 5+ can get vaccinated. 12+ can get boosted if over 5 months.

At this point I don't have any sympathy for a 10 day quarantine for unvaccinated. If you don't like it, get your kid vaccinated.

Yep. Not sorry antivaxxers.

Preschoolers who are too young for vaccination exist you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those of you who keep saying bring on Youngkin.

VDH does not set the isolation and quarantine policies for school districts. They are school district specific and at their discretion. And this is not the type of thing that would go in an executive order.

VDH can issue an emergency health rule, just like Northam did with masks.

Axing close contacts was done already in Florida in the fall:
https://www.flgov.com/2021/09/22/governor-ron-desantis-announces-new-department-of-health-rule-to-protect-healthy-students-from-forced-quarantining/

Bring on Youngkin - 5 days from we get out from under the tyranny of this closed schoolers' dream of a Governor, Ralph Northam.

I do not think we are Florida or Youngkin is going to do that. Could be wrong though!