DCPS Vaccination requirement

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My reading is that it requires kids to have both shots by March 1st...Which means that kids need their first shot by the first week in Feb at the latest. So, families have six weeks to get that first shot.

As much as I would love for the deadline to be sooner, this doesn't seem terribly unreasonable. to me, given the schools are going to need to figure out how to get verification of vaccination.

But this is all irrelevant for the time being since 1) it's not being enforced until next school year; and 2) it only applies to those ages that the FDA has fully approved the vaccine - just 16+. But next school year when there is enforcement and hopefully all ages will be fully approved by the FDA, it will be great!

where are you seeing won't be required till next school year?

I read that in an email sent out from the DC council. It only applies to fully approved vaccines in the first place, and will be added as a regularly required vaccine starting next school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My reading is that it requires kids to have both shots by March 1st...Which means that kids need their first shot by the first week in Feb at the latest. So, families have six weeks to get that first shot.

As much as I would love for the deadline to be sooner, this doesn't seem terribly unreasonable. to me, given the schools are going to need to figure out how to get verification of vaccination.

But this is all irrelevant for the time being since 1) it's not being enforced until next school year; and 2) it only applies to those ages that the FDA has fully approved the vaccine - just 16+. But next school year when there is enforcement and hopefully all ages will be fully approved by the FDA, it will be great!

where are you seeing won't be required till next school year?

Click on the link in the third post on this thread. It’s right there.

[Anonymous]

It says will be required on March 2022 which would be this school year. At least for the grades where vaccine is approved.

[Anonymous]

Quote from an email from today from the Council:

“ Given the week's weighty COVID news, including the skyrocketing case rate, the overdue return of the District's mask mandate, and the pending broad expansion of self-testing, the Council's final vote on the student mask mandate could not have come at a better time. As passed, the measure requires all students who are eligible to receive a fully-approved vaccine to be vaccinated by March 1. Enforcement of the measure, as is the case with all previously required vaccines, will counterbalance the need for a vaccinated student body with the necessity to have kids in school every day. Given that the COVID vaccine will be added to the battery of required vaccines mid-year, the enforcement protocol will not kick in for unvaccinated students until the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year.”

[Anonymous]

So I guess it’ll be required but not enforced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now if we could just get all the teachers vaccinated....

All teachers are vaccinated unless they have a religious exemption. There is no more weekly testing option. I would love for them to do away with the religious exemption but I doubt DCPS wants to deal with the legal hassle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now if we could just get all the teachers vaccinated....

All teachers are vaccinated unless they have a religious exemption. There is no more weekly testing option. I would love for them to do away with the religious exemption but I doubt DCPS wants to deal with the legal hassle.

There was also an option to state that you don’t want to be vaccinated. I work with a person that chose this option. DCPS has done nothing to put pressure on teachers and staff to be vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

It says that it is required by March 1 but only enforced during the 2022-2023 school year.

[Anonymous]

The date to comply is fine as it gives those who are not vaccinated a chance to do so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The date to comply is fine as it gives those who are not vaccinated a chance to do so.

+1

It also really isn’t fair to enforce it in March. If a family doesn’t want to get their kid vaccinated they should have the right to finish the year and then find other educational options. I know, I know, flame away. But kicking kids out in March is inappropriate for a school system to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The date to comply is fine as it gives those who are not vaccinated a chance to do so.

+1

It also really isn’t fair to enforce it in March. If a family doesn’t want to get their kid vaccinated they should have the right to finish the year and then find other educational options. I know, I know, flame away. But kicking kids out in March is inappropriate for a school system to do.

Home school is an option - good luck finding other options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The date to comply is fine as it gives those who are not vaccinated a chance to do so.

+1

It also really isn’t fair to enforce it in March. If a family doesn’t want to get their kid vaccinated they should have the right to finish the year and then find other educational options. I know, I know, flame away. But kicking kids out in March is inappropriate for a school system to do.

Home school is an option - good luck finding other options.

No one is going to kick kids out. You will see…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The date to comply is fine as it gives those who are not vaccinated a chance to do so.

+1

It also really isn’t fair to enforce it in March. If a family doesn’t want to get their kid vaccinated they should have the right to finish the year and then find other educational options. I know, I know, flame away. But kicking kids out in March is inappropriate for a school system to do.

Home school is an option - good luck finding other options.

If your kid is vaccinated why do you care so much that you want children kicked out of school in March? And regardless of what you think there is no way they will enforce this in March. The political optics alone would be horrible.