No more masks at VA privates?

[Anonymous]

I prefer that parents are respected and entrusted with the responsibility to decide whether their child will wear mask. So thankful to see parental choice and respect for individual families at our private school again.

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Anonymous wrote:The elite privates will most certainly add language to their contracts that patents and students must abide by their rules regarding the health and welfare of those on school grounds. Any parent who is a Trumplican or QAnon type can leave the decent privates and go to one of the crap ones, or home school, or suck it up at their designated public. This is actual an awesome opportunity to get those loonies out of the good private schools. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

If the EO is the law, the school MUST provide an opt out. Some people don’t seem to understand how the law works. Private schools are not above or independent of all laws. I’m not sure what people are missing about that concept. You can put that language in a contract and someone can claim they signed under duress or that it’s unenforceable because it’s not legal.

I think many privates (like ours) are in a panic not knowing what to do. This is a very good time to have an excellent in-house counsel.

Wrong. It does not apply to private enterprises such a private schools.

Except the mask mandate applied to all k-12 schools and that’s what he seems to undo. The language of Youngkin’s EO very broad and he appears to be trying to prohibit any school, public or private, from requiring masks.

“A child whose parent has elected that he or she is not subject to a mask mandate should not be required to wear a mask under any policy implemented by a teacher, school, school district, the Department of Education, or any other state authority.”

It’s ambiguous. It depends on the meaning of “other” in “or any other state authority”. If that phrase modifies all the nouns, then they all have to be state authorities (public teachers, public schools, public school districts etc). If it only modifies Dept of Ed, then maybe it’s different. 2.5 days into Youngkin’s term, I am thoroughly unimpressed.

And I’m thoroughly unimpressed with his legal counsel. “Should not be required to wear a mask”. Not “shall”. I mean, my kids should eat Brussel sprouts, should floss twice a day. Should shovel the driveway. But, none of those things happened today.

Big difference in legal drafting between should and shall. Among other things, this EO is unenforceable because it doesn’t actually direct (“shall”) anything. It’s purely aspirational (should).

[Anonymous]

Paranoid hypochondriacs shall not get to dictate what health decisions other parents make for their children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Paranoid hypochondriacs shall not get to dictate what health decisions other parents make for their children.

Yes, if you are so worried about breathing stale air in a mask keep your kid home.

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Anonymous wrote:Paranoid hypochondriacs shall not get to dictate what health decisions other parents make for their children.

Yes, if you are so worried about breathing stale air in a mask keep your kid home.

You don’t seem to understand the “other parents make for their kids” part. Feel free to keep your kids home cowering in fear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I prefer that parents are respected and entrusted with the responsibility to decide whether their child will wear mask. So thankful to see parental choice and respect for individual families at our private school again.

When else but a pandemic is there Anaí responsibility to the community? The mask protects others.

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Anonymous wrote:Paranoid hypochondriacs shall not get to dictate what health decisions other parents make for their children.

Yes, if you are so worried about breathing stale air in a mask keep your kid home.

You don’t seem to understand the “other parents make for their kids” part. Feel free to keep your kids home cowering in fear.

+1

[Anonymous]

Most parents are too stupid to be allowed to make decisions for their kid’s education much less their healthcare. Trumplicans are the perfect example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private school teachers with health conditions are now on notice apparently. Guess they will have to decide whether to risk it or quit.

Pregnant teachers and those trying to conceive, especially.

And the people who came after a career in another field who are in their 50s and 60s.

...That's just about everyone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Paranoid hypochondriacs shall not get to dictate what health decisions other parents make for their children.

Yes, if you are so worried about breathing stale air in a mask keep your kid home.

You don’t seem to understand the “other parents make for their kids” part. Feel free to keep your kids home cowering in fear.

My kids are vaccinated and wear masks cheerfully to attend school in person with their classmates w/o pauses. No one is cowering in fear - if you want community learning, there are some things kids need to do - get vaccinated and mask up. Today was all time in VA for covid 20,000 cases, 30% positivity andwe are all looking forward to number dropping by spring.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Private school teachers with health conditions are now on notice apparently. Guess they will have to decide whether to risk it or quit.

Pregnant teachers and those trying to conceive, especially.

And the people who came after a career in another field who are in their 50s and 60s.

...That's just about everyone.

COVID has even increased stillbirths. I thought the Catholic Church cared about the unborn.

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Anonymous wrote:Private school teachers with health conditions are now on notice apparently. Guess they will have to decide whether to risk it or quit.

Pregnant teachers and those trying to conceive, especially.

And the people who came after a career in another field who are in their 50s and 60s.

...That's just about everyone.

Pretty much. Apparently they respect all life, only as long as it's a fetus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I prefer that parents are respected and entrusted with the responsibility to decide whether their child will wear mask. So thankful to see parental choice and respect for individual families at our private school again.

Ah, that good ol’ American Selfishness coming on through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Paranoid hypochondriacs shall not get to dictate what health decisions other parents make for their children.

+1000

Luv this guv.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Private school teachers with health conditions are now on notice apparently. Guess they will have to decide whether to risk it or quit.

Pregnant teachers and those trying to conceive, especially.

And the people who came after a career in another field who are in their 50s and 60s.

...That's just about everyone.

COVID has even increased stillbirths. I thought the Catholic Church cared about the unborn.

Stillbirths and birth complications increased a lot. BUT, are you sure it's just covid? It could be covid shot also. My coworker who got the covid shot during pregnancy just delivered a 3 pound baby. No covid history.

I learnt growth can be an issue with covid shot. Not all babies suffer from it, but some may. Research should investigate the effect of covid on a pregnant mom/baby, and the effect of covid shot on mom/baby. Until we know research results we cannot know for sure.