It feels like Christmas - DCPS adopts CDC rules!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lordy DCPS’ about face on what’s safe is staggering. I’m trying to be guided by facts not emotion, but I’m much more nervous sending my kid in this fall than I was last January.

+ a million I sent my kid happily in February but I’m more concerned about now.

Why's that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lordy DCPS’ about face on what’s safe is staggering. I’m trying to be guided by facts not emotion, but I’m much more nervous sending my kid in this fall than I was last January.

It’s not DCPS. It’s guidance they adopted by CDC. Why is everyone in DC not “rooted in the science” like in the beginning?

[Anonymous]

Hopefully the mandated vaccine is the next step. All this is fine for not quarantining classes but teachers and school staff who continue to refuse to vaccinate will still follow quarantine rules when symptomatic. With the challenge already to finds subs it means that other teachers will have to take on the burden of their colleagues who refuse to take the vaccine or who knows what. Vaccine refusal became a morale problem amongst colleagues in my school in the spring.

DC government needs a vaccine mandate immediately.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully the mandated vaccine is the next step. All this is fine for not quarantining classes but teachers and school staff who continue to refuse to vaccinate will still follow quarantine rules when symptomatic. With the challenge already to finds subs it means that other teachers will have to take on the burden of their colleagues who refuse to take the vaccine or who knows what. Vaccine refusal became a morale problem amongst colleagues in my school in the spring.

DC government needs a vaccine mandate immediately.

It looks like a mandate will be announced at 11:00 am today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That guidance is DChealth. DCPS hasn’t shared what they will follow yet.

I thought they always followed DC health and that's what people have complained about... Are you always this fun?

At times, DCPS’s protocols have been stronger than DC Health or have lagged on making updates (eg, last Spring, DCPS was slow to shift from 14 days to 10 days for quarantine).

This more conservative (or bureaucratic?) approach is one reason private schools were able to offer more normal school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lordy DCPS’ about face on what’s safe is staggering. I’m trying to be guided by facts not emotion, but I’m much more nervous sending my kid in this fall than I was last January.

+ a million I sent my kid happily in February but I’m more concerned about now.

Why's that?

yeah, this isn’t super rational. adults are vaccinated now - we weren’t in feb. there were so few cases in our school from feb - june (2) and none over the summer. covid hasn’t gotten more dangerous for kids.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps because the changes seem politically motivated, rather than scientific. Look, I’m sending my kid, but I think it’s likely he/she will get Covid this year. It’s just a bit unsettling to see the “science” change so rapidly. Considering the risk seems greater for them now, it’s painfully obvious that schools weren’t closed last year to protect them from getting Covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lordy DCPS’ about face on what’s safe is staggering. I’m trying to be guided by facts not emotion, but I’m much more nervous sending my kid in this fall than I was last January.

+ a million I sent my kid happily in February but I’m more concerned about now.

Why's that?

yeah, this isn’t super rational. adults are vaccinated now - we weren’t in feb. there were so few cases in our school from feb - june (2) and none over the summer. covid hasn’t gotten more dangerous for kids.

It has gotten more virulent.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully the mandated vaccine is the next step. All this is fine for not quarantining classes but teachers and school staff who continue to refuse to vaccinate will still follow quarantine rules when symptomatic. With the challenge already to finds subs it means that other teachers will have to take on the burden of their colleagues who refuse to take the vaccine or who knows what. Vaccine refusal became a morale problem amongst colleagues in my school in the spring.

DC government needs a vaccine mandate immediately.

It looks like a mandate will be announced at 11:00 am today.

Thank you and finally! Hooray!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lordy DCPS’ about face on what’s safe is staggering. I’m trying to be guided by facts not emotion, but I’m much more nervous sending my kid in this fall than I was last January.

+ a million I sent my kid happily in February but I’m more concerned about now.

Why's that?

yeah, this isn’t super rational. adults are vaccinated now - we weren’t in feb. there were so few cases in our school from feb - june (2) and none over the summer. covid hasn’t gotten more dangerous for kids.

It has gotten more virulent.

Pp here — sorry — checking my vocabulary.

It is unknown whether it is more virulent or not.

It is definitely more contagious! That surely changes the situation for schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully the mandated vaccine is the next step. All this is fine for not quarantining classes but teachers and school staff who continue to refuse to vaccinate will still follow quarantine rules when symptomatic. With the challenge already to finds subs it means that other teachers will have to take on the burden of their colleagues who refuse to take the vaccine or who knows what. Vaccine refusal became a morale problem amongst colleagues in my school in the spring.

DC government needs a vaccine mandate immediately.

Is it true they can't mandate bevause it is still in EUA/Experimental phase?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lordy DCPS’ about face on what’s safe is staggering. I’m trying to be guided by facts not emotion, but I’m much more nervous sending my kid in this fall than I was last January.

+ a million I sent my kid happily in February but I’m more concerned about now.

Why's that?

yeah, this isn’t super rational. adults are vaccinated now - we weren’t in feb. there were so few cases in our school from feb - june (2) and none over the summer. covid hasn’t gotten more dangerous for kids.

Agree. We are fully vaccinated now and weren’t in February. My worry with Covid was always mostly about my husband, and that’s taken off now. I have never been worried about Covid for my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lordy DCPS’ about face on what’s safe is staggering. I’m trying to be guided by facts not emotion, but I’m much more nervous sending my kid in this fall than I was last January.

+ a million I sent my kid happily in February but I’m more concerned about now.

Why's that?

yeah, this isn’t super rational. adults are vaccinated now - we weren’t in feb. there were so few cases in our school from feb - june (2) and none over the summer. covid hasn’t gotten more dangerous for kids.

It has gotten more virulent.

it’s 50% more contagious than what was circulating last spring and all summer, with kids in school and camp. not all that different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lordy DCPS’ about face on what’s safe is staggering. I’m trying to be guided by facts not emotion, but I’m much more nervous sending my kid in this fall than I was last January.

+ a million I sent my kid happily in February but I’m more concerned about now.

Why's that?

I’m the PP. Am I the only one watching the news? And the news that there are not pediatric hospital beds because of Covid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lordy DCPS’ about face on what’s safe is staggering. I’m trying to be guided by facts not emotion, but I’m much more nervous sending my kid in this fall than I was last January.

+ a million I sent my kid happily in February but I’m more concerned about now.

Why's that?

I’m the PP. Am I the only one watching the news? And the news that there are not pediatric hospital beds because of Covid?

I have been exceedingly cautious since the beginning of COVID (including not being in favor of reopening schools in-person last spring and indoor masking continuously), but context is critical here. The places experiencing shortages of pediatric beds are in places where vax rates are low and masking mandates are non-existent (and often prohibited by law). That’s not the case in DC. Universal indoor masking + higher vax rates create a different context.