Are schools allowed to require proof of vaccination status?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. They are allowed to require proof of any vaccination.

Schools don't share this information with teachers. I have no idea which of my students have medical or religious exemptions or medical conditions that prevent them from responding to a vaccine, unless the parent tells me directly.

Right now, covid vaccines are not on the list of required vaccines. I imagine a change would require a change in law, which is of course doable. But an individual public school couldn't go rogue and require it.

Right, but as OP mentioned, this time you should be able to know who is likely vaccinated and who is not, based on whether they are wearing a mask. If you know or strongly suspect a student is not vaccinated, are you going to request that information? Are you going to enforce the mask policy on that student?

In my classroom everyone will wear a mask so, yes, I will enforce a mask policy. DP.

What if the school doesn’t require it? You quit?

All of APS will require a mask. Message coming soon. Open schools now families should be happy about this as your children will be in school for five days a week and they won’t have to stay home when Larla sitting at the next desk over gets Covid. This is per the CDC guidance about masking and definition of close contacts.

You’re funny. The open schools families are full of Varuca Salts who want everything they want and they want it now. They will complain loudly about the masks mandate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. They are allowed to require proof of any vaccination.

Schools don't share this information with teachers. I have no idea which of my students have medical or religious exemptions or medical conditions that prevent them from responding to a vaccine, unless the parent tells me directly.

Right now, covid vaccines are not on the list of required vaccines. I imagine a change would require a change in law, which is of course doable. But an individual public school couldn't go rogue and require it.

Right, but as OP mentioned, this time you should be able to know who is likely vaccinated and who is not, based on whether they are wearing a mask. If you know or strongly suspect a student is not vaccinated, are you going to request that information? Are you going to enforce the mask policy on that student?

In my classroom everyone will wear a mask so, yes, I will enforce a mask policy. DP.

What if the school doesn’t require it? You quit?

All of APS will require a mask. Message coming soon. Open schools now families should be happy about this as your children will be in school for five days a week and they won’t have to stay home when Larla sitting at the next desk over gets Covid. This is per the CDC guidance about masking and definition of close contacts.

You’re funny. The open schools families are full of Varuca Salts who want everything they want and they want it now. They will complain loudly about the masks mandate.

Yes, agree. That’s the irony.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Assuming a kid is old enough to be vaccinated but isn't for whatever reason, will their teachers know this information and become mask police the whole year?

I hope so.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. They are allowed to require proof of any vaccination.

Schools don't share this information with teachers. I have no idea which of my students have medical or religious exemptions or medical conditions that prevent them from responding to a vaccine, unless the parent tells me directly.

Right now, covid vaccines are not on the list of required vaccines. I imagine a change would require a change in law, which is of course doable. But an individual public school couldn't go rogue and require it.

Right, but as OP mentioned, this time you should be able to know who is likely vaccinated and who is not, based on whether they are wearing a mask. If you know or strongly suspect a student is not vaccinated, are you going to request that information? Are you going to enforce the mask policy on that student?

In my classroom everyone will wear a mask so, yes, I will enforce a mask policy. DP.

What if the school doesn’t require it? You quit?

All of APS will require a mask. Message coming soon. Open schools now families should be happy about this as your children will be in school for five days a week and they won’t have to stay home when Larla sitting at the next desk over gets Covid. This is per the CDC guidance about masking and definition of close contacts.

How do you know this? What makes you the spokesperson of APS? I get tired of people who purport to have insider scoop, but really just want to sound important.

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Anonymous wrote:Are they allowed? Yes

Will teachers be cross referencing and checking vaccination status to be mask police? No

As a teacher, I don’t have time for that and certainly won’t memorize the vaccination status for my 130+ high school students.

Speak for yourself. I absolutely WILL be checking vaccination status AND I absolutely WILL require unvaccinated students to wear masks.

How? If you are really a teacher you know you don’t have access to their medical records. You also know that masks had gaps and were falling off last spring by June. Are you going to ask the kid and put it on every seating chart for every class?

No, I will check the lists of vaccinated and unvaccinated, and I will ask for vaccination cards. If you don't show me your card then you WILL wear a mask in my classroom. Or I will leave. That is my bottom line. I will not teach in a room with unmasked unvaccinated people present.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. They are allowed to require proof of any vaccination.

Schools don't share this information with teachers. I have no idea which of my students have medical or religious exemptions or medical conditions that prevent them from responding to a vaccine, unless the parent tells me directly.

Right now, covid vaccines are not on the list of required vaccines. I imagine a change would require a change in law, which is of course doable. But an individual public school couldn't go rogue and require it.

Right, but as OP mentioned, this time you should be able to know who is likely vaccinated and who is not, based on whether they are wearing a mask. If you know or strongly suspect a student is not vaccinated, are you going to request that information? Are you going to enforce the mask policy on that student?

In my classroom everyone will wear a mask so, yes, I will enforce a mask policy. DP.

What if the school doesn’t require it? You quit?

All of APS will require a mask. Message coming soon. Open schools now families should be happy about this as your children will be in school for five days a week and they won’t have to stay home when Larla sitting at the next desk over gets Covid. This is per the CDC guidance about masking and definition of close contacts.

+1

[Anonymous]

All of these people that "know" what will happen: What will happen if/when masks are deemed optional, like in other school districts around us?

What will happen?

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Anonymous wrote:All of these people that "know" what will happen: What will happen if/when masks are deemed optional, like in other school districts around us?

What will happen?

What do you mean what will happen? You’re not making any sense. Mass are going to be required. Doesn’t matter what loudoun or Fairfax do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. They are allowed to require proof of any vaccination.

Schools don't share this information with teachers. I have no idea which of my students have medical or religious exemptions or medical conditions that prevent them from responding to a vaccine, unless the parent tells me directly.

Right now, covid vaccines are not on the list of required vaccines. I imagine a change would require a change in law, which is of course doable. But an individual public school couldn't go rogue and require it.

Right, but as OP mentioned, this time you should be able to know who is likely vaccinated and who is not, based on whether they are wearing a mask. If you know or strongly suspect a student is not vaccinated, are you going to request that information? Are you going to enforce the mask policy on that student?

In my classroom everyone will wear a mask so, yes, I will enforce a mask policy. DP.

What if the school doesn’t require it? You quit?

All of APS will require a mask. Message coming soon. Open schools now families should be happy about this as your children will be in school for five days a week and they won’t have to stay home when Larla sitting at the next desk over gets Covid. This is per the CDC guidance about masking and definition of close contacts.

How do you know this? What makes you the spokesperson of APS? I get tired of people who purport to have insider scoop, but really just want to sound important.

It’s called spilling tea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. They are allowed to require proof of any vaccination.

OP here. I understand the point about requiring proof of other vaccines. But a kid's MMR vaccination status isn't publicly known to their teachers and classmates, so no one would know that a kid's family has a religious or medical exemption for that vaccine. That's not true with this vaccination, at least if vaccinated kids are allowed to go maskless while the unvaccinated kids have to wear masks. It just feels like very private information that is made public by the distinction that schools might draw. I'm a little worried that unvaccinated kids will made to feel "other" if schools allow vaccinated kids to take off masks. I wonder, too, if teachers will treat kids differently if they are masked/unvaccinated, even on a subconscious level.

I am a teacher and I always know which of my students are vaccinated for regularly required vaccines because anyone who is out of compliance gets a letter from the nurse. I am responsible for making sure those letters get in backpacks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They are allowed to require proof of any vaccination.

Schools don't share this information with teachers. I have no idea which of my students have medical or religious exemptions or medical conditions that prevent them from responding to a vaccine, unless the parent tells me directly.

Right now, covid vaccines are not on the list of required vaccines. I imagine a change would require a change in law, which is of course doable. But an individual public school couldn't go rogue and require it.

Right, but as OP mentioned, this time you should be able to know who is likely vaccinated and who is not, based on whether they are wearing a mask. If you know or strongly suspect a student is not vaccinated, are you going to request that information? Are you going to enforce the mask policy on that student?

In my classroom everyone will wear a mask so, yes, I will enforce a mask policy. DP.

What if the school doesn’t require it? You quit?

All of APS will require a mask. Message coming soon. Open schools now families should be happy about this as your children will be in school for five days a week and they won’t have to stay home when Larla sitting at the next desk over gets Covid. This is per the CDC guidance about masking and definition of close contacts.

How do you know this? What makes you the spokesperson of APS? I get tired of people who purport to have insider scoop, but really just want to sound important.

NP I’m working summer school and this is consistent with what my admin has told us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They are allowed to require proof of any vaccination.

OP here. I understand the point about requiring proof of other vaccines. But a kid's MMR vaccination status isn't publicly known to their teachers and classmates, so no one would know that a kid's family has a religious or medical exemption for that vaccine. That's not true with this vaccination, at least if vaccinated kids are allowed to go maskless while the unvaccinated kids have to wear masks. It just feels like very private information that is made public by the distinction that schools might draw. I'm a little worried that unvaccinated kids will made to feel "other" if schools allow vaccinated kids to take off masks. I wonder, too, if teachers will treat kids differently if they are masked/unvaccinated, even on a subconscious level.

I am a teacher and I always know which of my students are vaccinated for regularly required vaccines because anyone who is out of compliance gets a letter from the nurse. I am responsible for making sure those letters get in backpacks.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. They are allowed to require proof of any vaccination.

OP here. I understand the point about requiring proof of other vaccines. But a kid's MMR vaccination status isn't publicly known to their teachers and classmates, so no one would know that a kid's family has a religious or medical exemption for that vaccine. That's not true with this vaccination, at least if vaccinated kids are allowed to go maskless while the unvaccinated kids have to wear masks. It just feels like very private information that is made public by the distinction that schools might draw. I'm a little worried that unvaccinated kids will made to feel "other" if schools allow vaccinated kids to take off masks. I wonder, too, if teachers will treat kids differently if they are masked/unvaccinated, even on a subconscious level.

I am a teacher and I always know which of my students are vaccinated for regularly required vaccines because anyone who is out of compliance gets a letter from the nurse. I am responsible for making sure those letters get in backpacks.

+1

Yep. We have a folder for our class that included emergency procedures and info on allergies and vaccine exemptions.

[Anonymous]

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Yep. We have a folder for our class that included emergency procedures and info on allergies and vaccine exemptions.

But would you be given the info for a vaccine that is not required?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All of these people that "know" what will happen: What will happen if/when masks are deemed optional, like in other school districts around us?

What will happen?

What do you mean what will happen? You’re not making any sense. Masks are going to be required. Doesn’t matter what loudoun or Fairfax do.

PG County Just announced masks for all in schools. FYI