Are schools allowed to require proof of vaccination status?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They are allowed to require proof of any vaccination.

Schools don't share this information with teachers. I have no idea which of my students have medical or religious exemptions or medical conditions that prevent them from responding to a vaccine, unless the parent tells me directly.

Right now, covid vaccines are not on the list of required vaccines. I imagine a change would require a change in law, which is of course doable. But an individual public school couldn't go rogue and require it.

Right, but as OP mentioned, this time you should be able to know who is likely vaccinated and who is not, based on whether they are wearing a mask. If you know or strongly suspect a student is not vaccinated, are you going to request that information? Are you going to enforce the mask policy on that student?

[Anonymous]

There is no rule saying vaccine information cannot be shared with teachers. Do not be surprised if a teacher wants to know who isn't vaccinated in a class in order to ensure those students wear masks.

[Anonymous]

They will and masks as well.

This will happen privates will as well they won't want to be sued.

No hippa violations to all the idiots that think this

By the way you morons who don't want masking and or vaccine records. Immunization records have been around for ever, And Private schools can do whatever the h they want.

Good luck Trumpies keep giving that money to Don the Con while he sits pretty and your family members die.

[Anonymous]

No need to because they will all be wearing masks. CDC added some guidance that says if the whole class is masked, there is no quarnatine time needed if a positive in the class. So schools are going to require masking to eliminate quarantine/disruption.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No need to because they will all be wearing masks. CDC added some guidance that says if the whole class is masked, there is no quarnatine time needed if a positive in the class. So schools are going to require masking to eliminate quarantine/disruption.

Here is the guidance for anyone who "needs" to see it:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/k-12-guidance.html#contact-tracing

Schools should continue to collaborate with state and local health departments, to the extent allowable by privacy laws and other applicable laws, to confidentially provide information about people diagnosed with or exposed to COVID-19. This allows identifying which students, teachers, and staff with positive COVID-19 test results should isolate, and which close contacts should quarantine. See the added exception in the close contact definition for the exclusion of students in the K-12 indoor classroom who are within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student with masking and other prevention strategies.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/contact-tracing/contact-tracing-plan/appendix.html#contact

Exception: In the K–12 indoor classroom setting, the close contact definition excludes students who were within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student (laboratory-confirmed or a clinically compatible illness) where
both students were engaged in consistent and correct use of well-fitting masks; and
other K–12 school prevention strategies (such as universal and correct mask use, physical distancing, increased ventilation) were in place in the K–12 school setting.

[Anonymous]

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I’m the teacher that responded and you didn’t acknowledge that I said we would not be checking. I don’t have inside knowledge but I bet it’s on the honor system or they will require everyone to mask. No one will care if your kid masks or treats them differently. No one will assume their vaccination status. There are vaccinated individuals all over in public in masks. And there are also unvaccinated individuals without. We don’t know anyone’s vaccination status when we are in the grocery store.

I'm not so sure about this. It wouldn't surprise me if there were school covid monitors, who got the list of unvaccinated and went around to classrooms and checked.
Last spring, one of my kid's classmates got detention for lowering his mask to drink water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They are allowed to require proof of any vaccination.

Schools don't share this information with teachers. I have no idea which of my students have medical or religious exemptions or medical conditions that prevent them from responding to a vaccine, unless the parent tells me directly.

Right now, covid vaccines are not on the list of required vaccines. I imagine a change would require a change in law, which is of course doable. But an individual public school couldn't go rogue and require it.

Right, but as OP mentioned, this time you should be able to know who is likely vaccinated and who is not, based on whether they are wearing a mask. If you know or strongly suspect a student is not vaccinated, are you going to request that information? Are you going to enforce the mask policy on that student?

In my classroom everyone will wear a mask so, yes, I will enforce a mask policy. DP.

[Anonymous]

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Link to similar discussion on the DCPS forum:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/988551.page

Personally, I am for public schools requiring proof of vaccination, even if a lawsuit will certainly ensue. A federal judge recently ruled in favor of (public) Indiana University's right to require proof of vaccination.
Sadly it seems that area public schools don't have the guts to try, in this region chock-full of lawyers. They might change their minds if the CDC starts warning about a dangerous Delta spread, and state or county governments start ringing alarm bells on hospitalizations.

The judge did not rule in favor of requiring proof of vaccination. Most of the defendants had exemptions to the vaccine requirement, and were objecting to a policy of masks for unvaccinated. Plus the judge did not rule on the case, just against a temporary injunction.

[Anonymous]

I'm so jealous of the private schools in MD that will require vaccines for all 12+ attendees (unless they have a medical exemption) and will mask and outdoor lunch all students under 12.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are they allowed? Yes

Will teachers be cross referencing and checking vaccination status to be mask police? No

As a teacher, I don’t have time for that and certainly won’t memorize the vaccination status for my 130+ high school students.

Speak for yourself. I absolutely WILL be checking vaccination status AND I absolutely WILL require unvaccinated students to wear masks.

How? If you are really a teacher you know you don’t have access to their medical records. You also know that masks had gaps and were falling off last spring by June. Are you going to ask the kid and put it on every seating chart for every class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so jealous of the private schools in MD that will require vaccines for all 12+ attendees (unless they have a medical exemption) and will mask and outdoor lunch all students under 12.

Me too. I'm listening to some private school friends tell me how mitigated their schools will be next year. Vaccine mandates, outdoor lunch, and still masking in schools if you're under 12. I heard that Maryland doesn't even have a religious exemption in schools if there is an active endemic in the community.

It seems that everyone can have safety but us. APS can do better, it just chooses not to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They are allowed to require proof of any vaccination.

Schools don't share this information with teachers. I have no idea which of my students have medical or religious exemptions or medical conditions that prevent them from responding to a vaccine, unless the parent tells me directly.

Right now, covid vaccines are not on the list of required vaccines. I imagine a change would require a change in law, which is of course doable. But an individual public school couldn't go rogue and require it.

Right, but as OP mentioned, this time you should be able to know who is likely vaccinated and who is not, based on whether they are wearing a mask. If you know or strongly suspect a student is not vaccinated, are you going to request that information? Are you going to enforce the mask policy on that student?

In my classroom everyone will wear a mask so, yes, I will enforce a mask policy. DP.

What if the school doesn’t require it? You quit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so jealous of the private schools in MD that will require vaccines for all 12+ attendees (unless they have a medical exemption) and will mask and outdoor lunch all students under 12.

Me too. I'm listening to some private school friends tell me how mitigated their schools will be next year. Vaccine mandates, outdoor lunch, and still masking in schools if you're under 12. I heard that Maryland doesn't even have a religious exemption in schools if there is an active endemic in the community.

It seems that everyone can have safety but us. APS can do better, it just chooses not to.

Me three. At least some schools have a plan. APS is always behind the proverbial eight ball in all things COVID.

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They are allowed to require proof of any vaccination.

Schools don't share this information with teachers. I have no idea which of my students have medical or religious exemptions or medical conditions that prevent them from responding to a vaccine, unless the parent tells me directly.

Right now, covid vaccines are not on the list of required vaccines. I imagine a change would require a change in law, which is of course doable. But an individual public school couldn't go rogue and require it.

Right, but as OP mentioned, this time you should be able to know who is likely vaccinated and who is not, based on whether they are wearing a mask. If you know or strongly suspect a student is not vaccinated, are you going to request that information? Are you going to enforce the mask policy on that student?

In my classroom everyone will wear a mask so, yes, I will enforce a mask policy. DP.

What if the school doesn’t require it? You quit?

All of APS will require a mask. Message coming soon. Open schools now families should be happy about this as your children will be in school for five days a week and they won’t have to stay home when Larla sitting at the next desk over gets Covid. This is per the CDC guidance about masking and definition of close contacts.