DCPS Double Down on Travel Policy

[Anonymous]

We planned to travel to NC last week of Aug. I am leaning toward canceling the trip.

can someone please clarify if the rule is to quarantine for 7 days or 3 days upon return with a COVID negative test for unvaccinated kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We planned to travel to NC last week of Aug. I am leaning toward canceling the trip.

can someone please clarify if the rule is to quarantine for 7 days or 3 days upon return with a COVID negative test for unvaccinated kids?

It’s test three days upon return. But just go - who cares? No public safety difference being at the beach or mountains there than the beach or mountains in VA. You are just feeding the beast!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We planned to travel to NC last week of Aug. I am leaning toward canceling the trip.

can someone please clarify if the rule is to quarantine for 7 days or 3 days upon return with a COVID negative test for unvaccinated kids?

It’s test three days upon return. But just go - who cares? No public safety difference being at the beach or mountains there than the beach or mountains in VA. You are just feeding the beast!

It is both 3 and 7 days. OSSE says 3. DC health says 7 even with test. OSSE's guidelines also link to the DC Health guidelines.

But also just go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We planned to travel to NC last week of Aug. I am leaning toward canceling the trip.

can someone please clarify if the rule is to quarantine for 7 days or 3 days upon return with a COVID negative test for unvaccinated kids?

It’s test three days upon return. But just go - who cares? No public safety difference being at the beach or mountains there than the beach or mountains in VA. You are just feeding the beast!

It is both 3 and 7 days. OSSE says 3. DC health says 7 even with test. OSSE's guidelines also link to the DC Health guidelines.

But also just go.

See p. 10 of this thread for OSSE v. DC Health links.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We planned to travel to NC last week of Aug. I am leaning toward canceling the trip.

can someone please clarify if the rule is to quarantine for 7 days or 3 days upon return with a COVID negative test for unvaccinated kids?

why would you cancel? absurd. no need for such scrupulosity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What just happened here

covid snark - mother nature is healing.

*blows open mouth covid kiss*

[Anonymous]

OSSE updated their FAQs today- https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/page_content/attachments/Approved_Consolidated%20School%20FAQs_07.2.21.pdf

From this document- see #39:

39. If an individual travels to any place other than Maryland or Virginia and receives a
negative COVID-19 test upon their return to the District, can they return to school?
[UPDATED]

Per DC Health’s Guidance for Travel, unvaccinated or partially vaccinated individuals who have traveled
domestically to any place other than Maryland or Virginia must either (1) not attend school for 10 days
after returning, or (2) not attend school until tested for COVID-19 three to five days after returning AND
receive a negative COVID-19 viral test.

Unvaccinated or partially vaccinated individuals who have traveled internationally must either (1) not
attend school for 10 days after returning, or (2) not attend school for seven days after returning, get
tested for COVID-19 three to five days after returning, AND receive a negative COVID-19 viral test. Even
if the test is negative, the individual must still not attend school for seven days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What just happened here

covid snark - mother nature is healing.

*blows open mouth covid kiss*

oh yeah put it directly in my mouth

[Anonymous]

Oh no

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So my kid may get COVID because flying to vacation in Florida is more important than not getting sick during a global pandemic? And you'll lie about it? Awesome. I don't know how you sleep at night. A vaccine for kids is a few months away. What is wrong with waiting? I truly do not understand the ignorance here.

Yes, I'll lie about our family's travel because it's nobody's business what we do when our kids aren't in school.

Deal with it.

You’re a selfish a-hole. You don’t need to keep repeating it. We get it.

And my kids will be sitting next to your kids. Breathing on them, and spreading their Florida Delta covid germs.

Enjoy the rest of your summer. 🤣

Wow. I’m think this travel rule is asinine, and that we need to come down from the Covid hysteria now that we have vaccines, that people should enjoy their lives and make sure their kids enjoy their lives, and that kids should have been in school last year and certainly from here on out… But you really sound like a psychopath.

You’ve never really run into a psychopath in real life, I’m guessing.

[Anonymous]

46% of DC kids are in charters. Charters are not following this. At ours, they do lots of testing and they only quarantine if there is a positive test. No travel restrictions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OSSE updated their FAQs today- https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/page_content/attachments/Approved_Consolidated%20School%20FAQs_07.2.21.pdf

From this document- see #39:

39. If an individual travels to any place other than Maryland or Virginia and receives a
negative COVID-19 test upon their return to the District, can they return to school?
[UPDATED]

Per DC Health’s Guidance for Travel, unvaccinated or partially vaccinated individuals who have traveled
domestically to any place other than Maryland or Virginia must either (1) not attend school for 10 days
after returning, or (2) not attend school until tested for COVID-19 three to five days after returning AND
receive a negative COVID-19 viral test.

Unvaccinated or partially vaccinated individuals who have traveled internationally must either (1) not
attend school for 10 days after returning, or (2) not attend school for seven days after returning, get
tested for COVID-19 three to five days after returning, AND receive a negative COVID-19 viral test. Even
if the test is negative, the individual must still not attend school for seven days.

Except that's not what DC Health says.

[Anonymous]

As long as bars and restaurants are open, f$&@ the kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OSSE updated their FAQs today- https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/page_content/attachments/Approved_Consolidated%20School%20FAQs_07.2.21.pdf

From this document- see #39:

39. If an individual travels to any place other than Maryland or Virginia and receives a
negative COVID-19 test upon their return to the District, can they return to school?
[UPDATED]

Per DC Health’s Guidance for Travel, unvaccinated or partially vaccinated individuals who have traveled
domestically to any place other than Maryland or Virginia must either (1) not attend school for 10 days
after returning, or (2) not attend school until tested for COVID-19 three to five days after returning AND
receive a negative COVID-19 viral test.

Unvaccinated or partially vaccinated individuals who have traveled internationally must either (1) not
attend school for 10 days after returning, or (2) not attend school for seven days after returning, get
tested for COVID-19 three to five days after returning, AND receive a negative COVID-19 viral test. Even
if the test is negative, the individual must still not attend school for seven days.

osse can bite me. my elderly MIL needs regular visits in NYC and we will not be keeping my kid out of school for a single hour.

[Anonymous]

With the OTC tests, how is anyone going to know whether you tested or not?