No more masks at VA privates?

[Anonymous]

Our school is also continuing with a mask mandate. Which is funny since it's where Youngkin went!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obviously didn’t name the school for a reason, but not a loony ”fundy Christian or Islamic” either. Fully enrolled, wait list only. Not an anti-vaxxer. Entire family is fully vaccinated and boosted. Again, no shutdowns and no COVID for DC or any of his classmates. You are showing your ignorance with your assumptions.

Is there testing done weekly? If not, maybe that’s why school says there are no cases.

I never said that there were no cases. I said that there were no closures. No testing. Treating COVID like the endemic virus that it is. When your child is sick, you are asked to keep them at home. When they are no longer symptomatic, they can return to school, no questions asked. Of course kids have had COVID, but there have been no massive outbreaks in the school or the school community at large.

Are you talking about the fully enrolled school of 10 children located at your church?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even our parish catholic school has required masks throughout. VA maskless school is well outside the dc metro area. How many more guesses do we get until someone just answers what school this is if it’s local?

School is located INSIDE the Beltway.

Lol. OP must be bored.

[Anonymous]

OP change the name to Guess Which School! I find it hilarious that you feel the need to tell everyone the parents are doctors and lawyers. It must be a good school then. Okay.

[Anonymous]

Youngkin’s kids went to Little Langley, NCS, St Albans and Georgetown Prep. All privates. Most not even in Virginia. Very very telling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin’s kids went to Little Langley, NCS, St Albans and Georgetown Prep. All privates. Most not even in Virginia. Very very telling.

Oh, the guy conning the rubes is an Elite? He also went to Harvard.

No surprise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin’s kids went to Little Langley, NCS, St Albans and Georgetown Prep. All privates. Most not even in Virginia. Very very telling.

He had choice for his kids. He had choice between excellent public schools within his zipcode and also excellent private schools within and outside of his zipcode. He chose private schools within/outside his zipcode.

Now, he wants public school parents to have access to better schools especially if those within the zipcode is not good. Opening charter schools, and introducing school choice mechanisms for public school system are some ways where families can have access to better schools outside of the public schools in their zip code. They are proven to work, just look at what kind of academic papers have come out.

I think that the governor is doing the right thing. Writing this as an immigrant family from academia (I am not left or right, I am just looking at the policy).

[Anonymous]

HAHA they removed the most recent post that simply said 'Masks are child abuse'.

They should change this forum to DCLiberalMoms. Have to follow the lemmings or you're censored. I guess they're smart for knowing their target audience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HAHA they removed the most recent post that simply said 'Masks are child abuse'.

They should change this forum to DCLiberalMoms. Have to follow the lemmings or you're censored. I guess they're smart for knowing their target audience.

The idea that masks are child abuse is neither a liberal nor a conservative talking point. It is dangerous and inflammatory idiocy and worthy of removal.

Go be a dangerous moron somewhere else, but don't take anyone else there with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin’s kids went to Little Langley, NCS, St Albans and Georgetown Prep. All privates. Most not even in Virginia. Very very telling.

He had choice for his kids. He had choice between excellent public schools within his zipcode and also excellent private schools within and outside of his zipcode. He chose private schools within/outside his zipcode.

Now, he wants public school parents to have access to better schools especially if those within the zipcode is not good. Opening charter schools, and introducing school choice mechanisms for public school system are some ways where families can have access to better schools outside of the public schools in their zip code. They are proven to work, just look at what kind of academic papers have come out.

I think that the governor is doing the right thing. Writing this as an immigrant family from academia (I am not left or right, I am just looking at the policy).

People who are jazzed about the idea of school choice should be very, very wary of charter schools. I've worked in jobs adjacent to charter schools in two different states. Some of them are nothing more than smoke and mirrors with kids look tidy in uniforms. And if they're allowed to be for-profit - yikes. I read this article recently and didn't realize that the non-profit charters can skirt laws to work as for-profit facilities, but that makes so much sense. One of the companies mentioned is already housed in VA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/14/charter-school-for-profit/

[Anonymous]

I saw this NPR article today and thought of this thread:

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/28/1075842341/growing-calls-to-take-masks-off-children-in-school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HAHA they removed the most recent post that simply said 'Masks are child abuse'.

They should change this forum to DCLiberalMoms. Have to follow the lemmings or you're censored. I guess they're smart for knowing their target audience.

The idea that masks are child abuse is neither a liberal nor a conservative talking point. It is dangerous and inflammatory idiocy and worthy of removal.

Go be a dangerous moron somewhere else, but don't take anyone else there with you.

Masks are child abuse. With absolute certainty. Plenty of places around the country and world don't use them in school and they are just fine. Spend 20 minutes in any school and you will see why. Simple human nature - kids fidget and remove them all the time throughout the day. And the new variant can survive well over 18 hours on surfaces. If high grade masks are worn perfect, maybe they help. But only the lowest IQ lemmings think your cute etsy masks work for kids in reality. Additionally, we're talking about something that is now on par with the flu especially for those under 70. Thus it is child abuse to continue the mass psychosis nonsense. But I realize we are in an area with a lot of DRD4 gene defects where people get an enormous dopamine rush by thinking they are do-gooders by masking up. I'll go away and let you carry on with your anti-science echo chamber.

[Show me on this doll where this post hurts your feels and then make sure you report it. There's power in numbers for lemmings chanting "don't look up" LOL]

^ this is what happens when you give a tin-foil hat dope a thesaurus and internet access.

Without a mask, a child both transmits and picks up a greater viral load than they would otherwise - this much is incontrovertible - and is a greater danger to the folks who they see at home. There are thousands of multi-generational households in Northern Virginia, and in some of those, you have folks who are significantly compromised - never mind all of the houses with children who are still too young to be vaccinated on any level.

The mask may not prevent the child from testing positive, but it can certainly prevent them from becoming much more ill and from doing the same to others.

(P.S. I've worked exclusively in schools for over a decade. The kids are fine. They really don't care as much as adults would like them to.)

(P.P.S. Before you go making references, you might want to actually WATCH "Don't Look Up" so that you don't accidentally own yourself.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin’s kids went to Little Langley, NCS, St Albans and Georgetown Prep. All privates. Most not even in Virginia. Very very telling.

He had choice for his kids. He had choice between excellent public schools within his zipcode and also excellent private schools within and outside of his zipcode. He chose private schools within/outside his zipcode.

Now, he wants public school parents to have access to better schools especially if those within the zipcode is not good. Opening charter schools, and introducing school choice mechanisms for public school system are some ways where families can have access to better schools outside of the public schools in their zip code. They are proven to work, just look at what kind of academic papers have come out.

I think that the governor is doing the right thing. Writing this as an immigrant family from academia (I am not left or right, I am just looking at the policy).

The Governor absolutely does not want any of that. He wants to end (or at least strip and sell for parts) public Ed and preemptively Union-bust.

But I guess y’all rich folks believe anything another rich asshole in a fleece vest says.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin’s kids went to Little Langley, NCS, St Albans and Georgetown Prep. All privates. Most not even in Virginia. Very very telling.

He had choice for his kids. He had choice between excellent public schools within his zipcode and also excellent private schools within and outside of his zipcode. He chose private schools within/outside his zipcode.

Now, he wants public school parents to have access to better schools especially if those within the zipcode is not good. Opening charter schools, and introducing school choice mechanisms for public school system are some ways where families can have access to better schools outside of the public schools in their zip code. They are proven to work, just look at what kind of academic papers have come out.

I think that the governor is doing the right thing. Writing this as an immigrant family from academia (I am not left or right, I am just looking at the policy).

The Governor absolutely does not want any of that. He wants to end (or at least strip and sell for parts) public Ed and preemptively Union-bust.

But I guess y’all rich folks believe anything another rich asshole in a fleece vest says.

It’s not the “rich folks” who “believe” Yahoo Youngkin, it’s the poor rubes in the outer reaches of the commonwealth. The “rich folk”
who support Glib Glenn know exactly what he is up to and fully support the plan to move educational funding to religious organization that have schools and charters, some owned by their friends, where teachers aren’t allowed to unionize. Same way Republicans have been moving to privatize the prison system and invest in them so they can get their slimy hands on as much public funding as possible. It’s how those kinds of Republicans build their fortunes.

Sadly it Is the idiots who aren’t rich and aren’t smart enough to figure all this out who vote for these Glib Yahoo types - - they fall for the elaborate trigger words designed to make them froth at the mouth and vote against their own self- interests. Just sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin’s kids went to Little Langley, NCS, St Albans and Georgetown Prep. All privates. Most not even in Virginia. Very very telling.

Oh, the guy conning the rubes is an Elite? He also went to Harvard.

No surprise.

He also played basketball in college (not at an ivy league school).