DCPS Double Down on Travel Policy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stated today in the council hearing, kids will have to quarantine 10 days after travel out of the DMV… wow.

This seems to be only for unvaccinated kids and can be reduced to 7 days if the kid tests negative after 3 days of returning.

Based on the fact that it is different based on vaccination status, I'd imagine that it will be extremely difficult to enforce for the over-12 kids. Since vaccines aren't mandatory and you aren't required to report vax status. Kids over 12 can just say they are vaxxed (as can teachers/staff).

Well, congratulations to you and your over 12 kids? For the many of us whose kids are too young to be vaccinated, this is a nightmare especially in combination with the lack of a virtual school option (I am fully in favor of eliminating virtual school, but you can't do that and then also enforce quarantines).

This demonstrates to me that DC still does not have a plan about how to really have a robust in-person school system in the fall (including likely excessive quarantining) and, of all things in the past 16 months, is the thing that will make me consider leaving the city.

I'm PP and don't have over-12 kids, either. Yeah, we are going to have to quarantine kids in the Fall. It's going to be a mess. I will personally hate it. Finances mean I can't leave the city now (because if you're like me, covering childcare during the pandemic completely depleted my savings).

[Anonymous]

nobody I know is following this.

[Anonymous]

Don't care about the WTU. The entire rule is just bootstrapping upon the DC Department of Health guidelines. Any info on what the DOH is thinking?

[Anonymous]

I am so sad about this. My 2-5 yo kids and I miss extended family! We had one of my sisters drive to meet us in Eastern MD once, but otherwise haven't seen anyone. Meanwhile, DC is apparently wide open to tourists!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:nobody I know is following this.

Our daycare asks us at dropoff every morning and we don't want to lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so sad about this. My 2-5 yo kids and I miss extended family! We had one of my sisters drive to meet us in Eastern MD once, but otherwise haven't seen anyone. Meanwhile, DC is apparently wide open to tourists!

this is your choice. you don’t have to follow bad rules.

[Anonymous]

Travel restrictions without distinction between areas of low and high case rates are asinine. Again, masks, testing, and ventilation are the keys to preventing the spread (assuming vaccination is already a given or under 12 and unable to vaccinate).

Did DCPS not learn anything from the last 16 months?

[Anonymous]

Whatever. We won't be following stupid edicts like this. My children are no longer going to pay the price for adult fear and ignorance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever. We won't be following stupid edicts like this. My children are no longer going to pay the price for adult fear and ignorance.

Agree. If we travel, we do it super cautiously. Drive, mask indoors, don’t do indoor dining, don’t spend time with unvaccinated adults indoors. I have zero compunction about telling my kids to keep quiet about our travel, and I usually have a hard time lying.

[Anonymous]

Love that families with young children who haven't seen grandparents, cousins, or other family for 15 months are "selfish" for wanting rules that reasonably reflect risk. For instance, having more stringent rules for people who are flying versus those who are driving a state or two away. But no, the assumption is that this is a population who should just continue to sacrifice any semblance of a normal life for the benefit of everyone else.

So to be clear, DC's priorities:

Dine-in restaurants are more important than in-person school.
Drinking in bars is more important than visiting immediate family.
Adults with money are more important than children.
Commerce is more important than anything.

Just to be clear.

[Anonymous]

There is ZERO chance we or anyone we know will follow this.

[Anonymous]

So, I planned all my travel to return 10 days before school starts. I don't understand why this is so hard to do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is ZERO chance we or anyone we know will follow this.

Translation: we are all selfish assholes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, I planned all my travel to return 10 days before school starts. I don't understand why this is so hard to do?

This is currently affecting working parents with kids in daycare, preventing travel to visit family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, I planned all my travel to return 10 days before school starts. I don't understand why this is so hard to do?

Because it's stupid and I'm not scheduling my travel and vacation plans around an asinine policy that protects nothing but feelings.