FCPS Masking Update

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And CT local mandates are letting kids unmask

Are you really not able to understand the distinction between the CT and VA approaches? FCPS would unmask soon enough -- Omicron cases are in steep decline -- but Virginia made it impossible to reinstate mask mandates when future variants may necessitate it. Parental opt out is not a scientific basis to decide public health measures; it's pure politics.

I applaude McKay for his letter. The loud voices on DCUM to the contrary, most of us in Fairfax are educated enough to understand that the way the General Assembly and Youngkin approached this is pure stupidity.

The FCPS SB played the game of pure stupidity all last year. They were rock stars at it. So this is what you end up with.

A stupid governor and a stupid Chap Petersen?

Youngkin probably wouldn’t have won if school reopening was treated as the priority.

And Chap wouldn’t have stepped in on reopening or masks if they had a plan.

So yea, the area school boards did do this.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But he didn’t just remove mask mandate for now. He banned them forever. So stupid and shortsighted and such political pandering.

If he didn’t push FCPS hand they’d be masking forever. They took way too long to come up with an off-ramp and then used outdated metrics from a time before vaccines. They should have it done it way sooner and we wouldn’t be in this position.

[Anonymous]

I am relieved that the state has taken control and the power is out of FCPS’ hands. They have shown over the last two years to be utterly incompetent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And CT local mandates are letting kids unmask

Are you really not able to understand the distinction between the CT and VA approaches? FCPS would unmask soon enough -- Omicron cases are in steep decline -- but Virginia made it impossible to reinstate mask mandates when future variants may necessitate it. Parental opt out is not a scientific basis to decide public health measures; it's pure politics.

I applaude McKay for his letter. The loud voices on DCUM to the contrary, most of us in Fairfax are educated enough to understand that the way the General Assembly and Youngkin approached this is pure stupidity.

The FCPS SB played the game of pure stupidity all last year. They were rock stars at it. So this is what you end up with.

A stupid governor and a stupid Chap Petersen?

Youngkin probably wouldn’t have won if school reopening was treated as the priority.

And Chap wouldn’t have stepped in on reopening or masks if they had a plan.

So yea, the area school boards did do this.

+1

+2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am relieved that the state has taken control and the power is out of FCPS’ hands. They have shown over the last two years to be utterly incompetent.

+1,000,000

I don’t love the way that this all played out in Richmond, but if Youngkin and the legislature had never intervened, the woke school boards in the DMV would have our kids in masks in perpetuity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am relieved that the state has taken control and the power is out of FCPS’ hands. They have shown over the last two years to be utterly incompetent.

+1,000,000

I don’t love the way that this all played out in Richmond, but if Youngkin and the legislature had never intervened, the woke school boards in the DMV would have our kids in masks in perpetuity.

Yup. And the masks aren’t working. Our school is overrun by illness but none of it is Covid.

[Anonymous]

The email was stupid. They can’t just speak the facts and say no masks by March 1st. I wonder how much that letter cost us?

[Anonymous]

We’ve had some fabulous FCPS teachers, totally fabulous but Gatehouse and the SB are a hot mess.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone notice in the FCPS messaging that Braband equated mask wearing with respect? Total bs. So in other words, you don’t respect educators if you unmask.

I think it’s a fair conclusion.

My DC already had a teacher tell the class he’s ditching his mask as soon as he’s able. Using this logic, it means the teacher doesn’t respect the students. I don’t think this is true, but that would be what your logic says

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are posts being deleted?

Mine was deleted too. I don’t think I said anything problematic. I don’t recall if I quoted someone and if that person had said something problematic

Mine was deleted too, all I did was post to the other thread about masking saying this had been discussed enough.

My whole thread was locked for no reason.

We don't need eleventy-million threads. Two is enough.

100% agree. I've reported some of the other threads here, I'm sure I'm not the only one. I also asked Jeff to lock the other thread once FCPS sent the email (I started it).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am relieved that the state has taken control and the power is out of FCPS’ hands. They have shown over the last two years to be utterly incompetent.

+1,000,000

I don’t love the way that this all played out in Richmond, but if Youngkin and the legislature had never intervened, the woke school boards in the DMV would have our kids in masks in perpetuity.

Yup. And the masks aren’t working. Our school is overrun by illness but none of it is Covid.

My kids' ES still has a ton of Covid cases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am relieved that the state has taken control and the power is out of FCPS’ hands. They have shown over the last two years to be utterly incompetent.

+1,000,000

I don’t love the way that this all played out in Richmond, but if Youngkin and the legislature had never intervened, the woke school boards in the DMV would have our kids in masks in perpetuity.

Yup. And the masks aren’t working. Our school is overrun by illness but none of it is Covid.

My kids' ES still has a ton of Covid cases.

How many cases make "a ton"?

[Anonymous]

Fun fact - my kids brought home both Delta and then 10 months later omnicron from school where they wear masks all day. It barely affected them (delta got us pretty sick pre vaccine) - what the plan? Mask forever because it’s never going away. Wear a mask if you want to but why should my kids go years not seeing peers faces when they are immune? It’s stupid - now that there are vaccines people have to mitigate and accept risk in line with normal
Social interactions. Or don’t and stay home.

[Anonymous]

This is all insane. Like I said in August, have your kid wear a good n95 mask to school if you are worried. Masks optional. We know the cloth masks are next to useless. It’ll all be ok. Parents need to stop the gnashing of the teeth on both ends of the spectrum here—just be sane. Mask, don’t mask, chill the hell out. The kids are listening to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But he didn’t just remove mask mandate for now. He banned them forever. So stupid and shortsighted and such political pandering.

If he didn’t push FCPS hand they’d be masking forever. They took way too long to come up with an off-ramp and then used outdated metrics from a time before vaccines. They should have it done it way sooner and we wouldn’t be in this position.

There's not a prize for being cautious. Sadly, the lack of death and suffering is not a metric you notice. And the concept that "hey, maybe I can wait another month" means "forever " to you.

Have you been evaluated?