Unvaccinated Students & School Closures

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^ Adding that none of this is the children's fault, since they cannot go out and get vaccinated without parental approval. So the equity reason is to shield unvaccinated kids from the social repercussions of being singled out as belonging to those families.

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Anonymous wrote:why would middle and high schools close when there is a positive case? CDC guidance says vaccinated people don't have to quarantine when exposed. Send the unvaccinated home and let the sane, vaccinated students continue their education.

This is a DCPS policy.

That is a pre-vaccination policy. I don't believe DCPS has updated its policies for this school year. Still waiting for DOH to issue new guidance following the CDC new guidance.

Actually how would it work if there are different quarantine rules for the vaccinated and unvaccinated? One would have to disclose vaccination status, but that brings privacy concerns. So why not just lie if one is unvaccinated? Since we won't be able to know who is vaccinated or not, and given that some people will lie about being vaccinated, that means erring on the side of safety and making everyone quarantine.

Plus to NOT quarantine you'd have to state your vaccination status; would you have to prove it by showing your vaccine card? So if you show your vaccine card, that is giving medical information to the school, and is apparently not allowed without a contract negotiation for teachers. I don't know what the rules would be for kids....we take it for granted that parents will just release medical information to schools but what if some also have privacy concerns about that?

I would imagine it would have to be voluntary -- for both students and teachers. They can provide a record of vaccination in order to get out of quarantine, but someone would have to collect that info under the pertinent privacy protocols. It would be the regular protocols for students (the same ones used for providing student health records), but i don't know what that entity would be for teachers -- the same entity? DC Health?

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Our area's public schools will probably mandate masks for everyone in the fall, except for lunch, band, choir and PE.

It would be so much better if schools could require proof of vaccination and then ask non-vaccinated kids to wear masks, but that's not how it's going to happen, because people just aren't compliant and don't like that kind of authoritarianism.

Under this rubric, the vaccines don't matter for quarantine, either. Exposure = 2 week quarantine, regardless of vax status.

Seems like this will have to go on until vax is mandatory for students/teachers/staff.

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Anonymous wrote:^ Adding that none of this is the children's fault, since they cannot go out and get vaccinated without parental approval. So the equity reason is to shield unvaccinated kids from the social repercussions of being singled out as belonging to those families.

Yeah, but they deserve the social repercussions. Maybe THEY can convince their idiot parents to get the shots.

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Anonymous wrote:^ Adding that none of this is the children's fault, since they cannot go out and get vaccinated without parental approval. So the equity reason is to shield unvaccinated kids from the social repercussions of being singled out as belonging to those families.

Yeah, but they deserve the social repercussions. Maybe THEY can convince their idiot parents to get the shots.

A 12 yr old deserves the repercussions? Reeeaaally?

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Anonymous wrote:In California I believe they are now saying all kids must wear masks for equity purposes (to respect those kids who could be, but aren't, vaccinated). My guess is something similar will happen here along with continual school closures and school day modifications for equity purposes.

The "equity" reasons are such total and complete bullshit for anyone over the age of 12. If you are dumb enough not to get vaccinated, then it's on you at this point. And I'm sorry if I'm ruffling any precious snowflake feathers - at this point, unless you are immunocompromised or have some real medical reason to not get vaccinated (and over the age of 12), then you richly deserve that forthcoming Darwin Award. I have ZERO, and I mean ZERO sympathy for the "hesitant" at this point - they are not hesitant, just morons.

Right. But those unvaccinated kids/teachers will close schools temporarily if they get covid. This will affect all students. It is horrible to contemplate kids’ education being interrupted by the morons who don’t understand science.

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Anonymous wrote:^ Adding that none of this is the children's fault, since they cannot go out and get vaccinated without parental approval. So the equity reason is to shield unvaccinated kids from the social repercussions of being singled out as belonging to those families.

Yeah, but they deserve the social repercussions. Maybe THEY can convince their idiot parents to get the shots.

Let’s mock and punish children for not making their parents bend to their will. Does your 12 year old make their own decisions about things that you control? Like if they said no to the vaccine you would have allowed that? How is a 12 year old supposed to convince their parents of something they don’t believe?

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Anonymous wrote:^ Adding that none of this is the children's fault, since they cannot go out and get vaccinated without parental approval. So the equity reason is to shield unvaccinated kids from the social repercussions of being singled out as belonging to those families.

Yeah, but they deserve the social repercussions. Maybe THEY can convince their idiot parents to get the shots.

Let’s mock and punish children for not making their parents bend to their will. Does your 12 year old make their own decisions about things that you control? Like if they said no to the vaccine you would have allowed that? How is a 12 year old supposed to convince their parents of something they don’t believe?

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Unvaccinated children should be taught remotely. Period.

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Anonymous wrote:^ Adding that none of this is the children's fault, since they cannot go out and get vaccinated without parental approval. So the equity reason is to shield unvaccinated kids from the social repercussions of being singled out as belonging to those families.

Yeah, but they deserve the social repercussions. Maybe THEY can convince their idiot parents to get the shots.

Let’s mock and punish children for not making their parents bend to their will. Does your 12 year old make their own decisions about things that you control? Like if they said no to the vaccine you would have allowed that? How is a 12 year old supposed to convince their parents of something they don’t believe?

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Unvaccinated children should be taught remotely. Period.

Oh no they should not. That means all the kids under 12 are remote. Those who have the least risk from catching covid.

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Anonymous wrote:^ Adding that none of this is the children's fault, since they cannot go out and get vaccinated without parental approval. So the equity reason is to shield unvaccinated kids from the social repercussions of being singled out as belonging to those families.

Yeah, but they deserve the social repercussions. Maybe THEY can convince their idiot parents to get the shots.

Let’s mock and punish children for not making their parents bend to their will. Does your 12 year old make their own decisions about things that you control? Like if they said no to the vaccine you would have allowed that? How is a 12 year old supposed to convince their parents of something they don’t believe?

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Unvaccinated children should be taught remotely. Period.

So elementary schools should remain closed for the upcoming school year?

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But for real, we're just going to keep having 2-week exposure quarantines until vaccinations are mandatory.

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Anonymous wrote:^ Adding that none of this is the children's fault, since they cannot go out and get vaccinated without parental approval. So the equity reason is to shield unvaccinated kids from the social repercussions of being singled out as belonging to those families.

Yeah, but they deserve the social repercussions. Maybe THEY can convince their idiot parents to get the shots.

Let’s mock and punish children for not making their parents bend to their will. Does your 12 year old make their own decisions about things that you control? Like if they said no to the vaccine you would have allowed that? How is a 12 year old supposed to convince their parents of something they don’t believe?

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Unvaccinated children should be taught remotely. Period.

So elementary schools should remain closed for the upcoming school year?

Let’s quit engaging that PP, she is clearly a very angry and cruel person if she thinks 12 year olds should suffer the consequences of their parents’s decisions.

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*parents’

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Anonymous wrote:^ Adding that none of this is the children's fault, since they cannot go out and get vaccinated without parental approval. So the equity reason is to shield unvaccinated kids from the social repercussions of being singled out as belonging to those families.

Yeah, but they deserve the social repercussions. Maybe THEY can convince their idiot parents to get the shots.

Let’s mock and punish children for not making their parents bend to their will. Does your 12 year old make their own decisions about things that you control? Like if they said no to the vaccine you would have allowed that? How is a 12 year old supposed to convince their parents of something they don’t believe?

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Unvaccinated children should be taught remotely. Period.

So elementary schools should remain closed for the upcoming school year?

This thread is for MS and HS! DGAF about elementary schools.

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Anonymous wrote:^ Adding that none of this is the children's fault, since they cannot go out and get vaccinated without parental approval. So the equity reason is to shield unvaccinated kids from the social repercussions of being singled out as belonging to those families.

Yeah, but they deserve the social repercussions. Maybe THEY can convince their idiot parents to get the shots.

Let’s mock and punish children for not making their parents bend to their will. Does your 12 year old make their own decisions about things that you control? Like if they said no to the vaccine you would have allowed that? How is a 12 year old supposed to convince their parents of something they don’t believe?

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Unvaccinated children should be taught remotely. Period.

So elementary schools should remain closed for the upcoming school year?

This thread is for MS and HS! DGAF about elementary schools.

What a gem