Charters: What covid precautions has your school announced for the upcoming year?

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Anonymous wrote:ITDS requiring masks. I am so unhappy about this. No clear path for reconsidering like some other schools. It’s just too much.

Are masks required for the meet your teacher night or for students going returning to school?

Confirmed. I just clarified with an ITDS teacher that all students are required to wear masks. We need to start a petition to at least make it optional. Or go to a different school, which sounds a million times nicer at this point.

ITDS families should all disenroll and enroll in their IB school this week.

I'd love to see all of these hysterical anti-maskers do just that! Sadly not a single one will.

You realize that when removed from institutional and social pressure, the vast majority of people are not wearing masks now. Right?

The vast majority of people are not wearing masks now at all, regardless of any institutional or social pressure.

Just the clinically anxious nutcases in DC.

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And their children who have no choice in the matter and who attend certain DC charter schools that make special unnamed accomodations for their school community.

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Anonymous wrote:It's so hard for me to accept that people wouldn't feel strongly about something like this. Learning other languages, social cues, story times behind a mask for a developing child. You'd have to feel very strongly about either this perspective or a deadly pandemic where all precautions are necessary. Can you imagine asking a school precovid to mask all their students down to age 3 to conduct an innocuous research study? Parents would go nuts.

The world has changed and some of you really can't accept that.

My family has never had covid and I'd like to keep it that way. I am happy our charter will continue to mask.

You are welcome to mask as long as you want. But hard to ignore that almost the entire country has had the option at least in the spring if not earlier. Also, the kids are all coming to school with thin cloth masks that they will wear below their noses. The teacher won’t care because they are trying to teach. So great. You won.

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB ended the school year with 20% asymptomatic testing + masks. Masks were technically only mandatory if the community level was in "low" and there was something like 5 or fewer cases at school in a 7-day period. Which meant we had one week of mask-optional.

The LAMB summer camp required masks, full stop.

Parents weren't really allowed in the building, which meant there was some loss of community. Zoom events just don't do it.

They've announced that they will send out info later, but I'm imagining it'll be more of the same in the Fall.

LAMB will mask for medium + high.

Unclear if they are stopping asymptomatic testing (by omission it sounds like they will, but they could always just starting testing kids without notifying parents; I wouldn't put it past them).

Parents aren't allowed in building if not vaccinated.

Kids who are vaccinated don't need to quarantine after exposure, kids that are not vaccinated can do TTS after exposure.

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB ended the school year with 20% asymptomatic testing + masks. Masks were technically only mandatory if the community level was in "low" and there was something like 5 or fewer cases at school in a 7-day period. Which meant we had one week of mask-optional.

The LAMB summer camp required masks, full stop.

Parents weren't really allowed in the building, which meant there was some loss of community. Zoom events just don't do it.

They've announced that they will send out info later, but I'm imagining it'll be more of the same in the Fall.

LAMB will mask for medium + high.

Unclear if they are stopping asymptomatic testing (by omission it sounds like they will, but they could always just starting testing kids without notifying parents; I wouldn't put it past them).

Parents aren't allowed in building if not vaccinated.

Kids who are vaccinated don't need to quarantine after exposure, kids that are not vaccinated can do TTS after exposure.

That is pure nonsense. What??

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB ended the school year with 20% asymptomatic testing + masks. Masks were technically only mandatory if the community level was in "low" and there was something like 5 or fewer cases at school in a 7-day period. Which meant we had one week of mask-optional.

The LAMB summer camp required masks, full stop.

Parents weren't really allowed in the building, which meant there was some loss of community. Zoom events just don't do it.

They've announced that they will send out info later, but I'm imagining it'll be more of the same in the Fall.

LAMB will mask for medium + high.

Unclear if they are stopping asymptomatic testing (by omission it sounds like they will, but they could always just starting testing kids without notifying parents; I wouldn't put it past them).

Parents aren't allowed in building if not vaccinated.

Kids who are vaccinated don't need to quarantine after exposure, kids that are not vaccinated can do TTS after exposure.

That is pure nonsense. What??

No explanation. Obviously goes against CDC. But charter schools admins are public health experts, remember.

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At some point could there be a legal argument made that adding restrictions to unvaccinated versus vaccinated kids is discrimination? At this point I feel we are really moving towards civil liberty issues.

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Anonymous wrote:At some point could there be a legal argument made that adding restrictions to unvaccinated versus vaccinated kids is discrimination? At this point I feel we are really moving towards civil liberty issues.

That’s not how discrimination works.

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Anonymous wrote:At some point could there be a legal argument made that adding restrictions to unvaccinated versus vaccinated kids is discrimination? At this point I feel we are really moving towards civil liberty issues.

Schools have required vaccinations before kids can attend school for ages. This is just an extension of this practice.

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Anonymous wrote:At some point could there be a legal argument made that adding restrictions to unvaccinated versus vaccinated kids is discrimination? At this point I feel we are really moving towards civil liberty issues.

Schools have required vaccinations before kids can attend school for ages. This is just an extension of this practice.

Is it? Are you speaking from any place of knowledge or just talking out your anus?

Also, the different treatment by vaccination actually doesn’t accomplish the goal, if that goal is reduced transmission. It’s just bizarre at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:At some point could there be a legal argument made that adding restrictions to unvaccinated versus vaccinated kids is discrimination? At this point I feel we are really moving towards civil liberty issues.

Schools have required vaccinations before kids can attend school for ages. This is just an extension of this practice.

Is it? Are you speaking from any place of knowledge or just talking out your anus?

Also, the different treatment by vaccination actually doesn’t accomplish the goal, if that goal is reduced transmission. It’s just bizarre at this point.

Are you disputing the statement that schools have required vaccines for ages?

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Anonymous wrote:At some point could there be a legal argument made that adding restrictions to unvaccinated versus vaccinated kids is discrimination? At this point I feel we are really moving towards civil liberty issues.

Schools have required vaccinations before kids can attend school for ages. This is just an extension of this practice.

Is it? Are you speaking from any place of knowledge or just talking out your anus?

Also, the different treatment by vaccination actually doesn’t accomplish the goal, if that goal is reduced transmission. It’s just bizarre at this point.

Are you disputing the statement that schools have required vaccines for ages?

Vaccinations that work and prevent transmission are a wonderful thing and should remain required.

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Anonymous wrote:At some point could there be a legal argument made that adding restrictions to unvaccinated versus vaccinated kids is discrimination? At this point I feel we are really moving towards civil liberty issues.

That’s not how discrimination works.

yes it is. when the impact falls more heavily on one racial group, it could be a violation of civil rights.

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Anonymous wrote:At some point could there be a legal argument made that adding restrictions to unvaccinated versus vaccinated kids is discrimination? At this point I feel we are really moving towards civil liberty issues.

Schools have required vaccinations before kids can attend school for ages. This is just an extension of this practice.

Is it? Are you speaking from any place of knowledge or just talking out your anus?

Also, the different treatment by vaccination actually doesn’t accomplish the goal, if that goal is reduced transmission. It’s just bizarre at this point.

Are you disputing the statement that schools have required vaccines for ages?

No, I'm disputing the statement "This is just an extension of this practice." Requiring vaccines =/= making differential rules while being in school about whether or not you have (unrequired) vaccines.

Point me to some sort of legal reason or some statement in from OSSE or something.

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB ended the school year with 20% asymptomatic testing + masks. Masks were technically only mandatory if the community level was in "low" and there was something like 5 or fewer cases at school in a 7-day period. Which meant we had one week of mask-optional.

The LAMB summer camp required masks, full stop.

Parents weren't really allowed in the building, which meant there was some loss of community. Zoom events just don't do it.

They've announced that they will send out info later, but I'm imagining it'll be more of the same in the Fall.

LAMB will mask for medium + high.

Unclear if they are stopping asymptomatic testing (by omission it sounds like they will, but they could always just starting testing kids without notifying parents; I wouldn't put it past them).

Parents aren't allowed in building if not vaccinated.

Kids who are vaccinated don't need to quarantine after exposure, kids that are not vaccinated can do TTS after exposure.

That is pure nonsense. What??

No explanation. Obviously goes against CDC. But charter schools admins are public health experts, remember.

Posted ironically, I assume? You get that you (and most of DCUM) purport to be public health experts ALL DAMN DAY (see, all of DCUM for the last 2 years).