FCPS response to new CDC guidelines

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like FCPS doesn’t have a completed plan on how they are handling the changes, but they are working on it. Glad to hear it.

It came out one day ago. I am glad they’re not rushing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is great timing. Youngkin needs to run with this. No masks in school, unless you are a recent close contact. It’s unreasonable to stay home so slap a mask on for 5 days!

If they take away the universal masking requirement, maybe you can take my hard to fill position. I will be resigning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is great timing. Youngkin needs to run with this. No masks in school, unless you are a recent close contact. It’s unreasonable to stay home so slap a mask on for 5 days!

If they take away the universal masking requirement, maybe you can take my hard to fill position. I will be resigning.

But you saw the news about how cloth masks do nothing, right? That's what all the kids are wearing. What's the difference?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is great timing. Youngkin needs to run with this. No masks in school, unless you are a recent close contact. It’s unreasonable to stay home so slap a mask on for 5 days!

If they take away the universal masking requirement, maybe you can take my hard to fill position. I will be resigning.

But you saw the news about how cloth masks do nothing, right? That's what all the kids are wearing. What's the difference? [/quote

Surgical masks should be required, at a minimum.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is great timing. Youngkin needs to run with this. No masks in school, unless you are a recent close contact. It’s unreasonable to stay home so slap a mask on for 5 days!

If they take away the universal masking requirement, maybe you can take my hard to fill position. I will be resigning.

But you saw the news about how cloth masks do nothing, right? That's what all the kids are wearing. What's the difference? [/quote

Surgical masks should be required, at a minimum.

+1000 - FCPS needs to start distributing surgical masks and not the stupid cloth ones. Maybe they should buy some KN95s while they are at it, but I know they won’t.

[Anonymous]

No one is going to agree to have their kid suffocating in a medical grade respirator all day.
Going through 200,000 paper masks a day is revoltingly wasteful. To avoid catching a cold, that everyone is vaccinated against. You all sound nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one is going to agree to have their kid suffocating in a medical grade respirator all day.
Going through 200,000 paper masks a day is revoltingly wasteful. To avoid catching a cold, that everyone is vaccinated against. You all sound nuts.

So how many unvaccinated people save your office all day every day? Less than 50% of my school is vaccinated. Feel free to sub for me! Enjoy your ‘cold!’

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is great timing. Youngkin needs to run with this. No masks in school, unless you are a recent close contact. It’s unreasonable to stay home so slap a mask on for 5 days!

If they take away the universal masking requirement, maybe you can take my hard to fill position. I will be resigning.

But you saw the news about how cloth masks do nothing, right? That's what all the kids are wearing. What's the difference?

Also the mask doctors are adamant that 1 way masking with an N95 works to protect you.

[Anonymous]

The reduced isolation guidelines require masking for the 2nd 5 days. Students can't strictly mask all day unless they're given a dedicated space with separate ventilation or outside to eat. Fairfax should keep the 10 days for isolation. For quarantine I believe they had already reduced it to 7 days. If they want 5 days + test on 5th day, that's fine, but it basically is 7 days at that point anyway. Does anyone know which schools will be piloting test to stay?

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way they will make vaccinated students quarantine. They are not going to do anything to increase quarantines. If my vaccinated kids had to quarantine with every exposure they would be at home more than in school.

Is sometime talking about increasing quarantines?

How many times have you been notified of a close contact? Just curious. We haven’t had any but our DS is in ES and the school itself hasn’t had many cases.

DP but my 12 and 15 year old have been close contacts. Vaccinated early September. Returned right away both times. So under new guidelines they’d have to quarantine for 5 days because they don’t have booster. No thanks.

With the new variant, those two vaccines aren’t going to protect them much from infection, so it makes sense.

DP. It protects them from serious illness so they need to be in school if they only have the sniffles or are asymptomatic. If there are kids in school who are 12+ and unvaccinated, not my problem. Those kids should stay home because their parents choose not to vaccinate them. I'm not testing my asymptomatic kid and if they have minor sniffles, I'm also not testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reduced isolation guidelines require masking for the 2nd 5 days. Students can't strictly mask all day unless they're given a dedicated space with separate ventilation or outside to eat. Fairfax should keep the 10 days for isolation. For quarantine I believe they had already reduced it to 7 days. If they want 5 days + test on 5th day, that's fine, but it basically is 7 days at that point anyway. Does anyone know which schools will be piloting test to stay?

No way. Every kid 12-15 will be sitting out weeks and weeks of school for NO REASON, because FCPS parents were responsible and got their kids vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reduced isolation guidelines require masking for the 2nd 5 days. Students can't strictly mask all day unless they're given a dedicated space with separate ventilation or outside to eat. Fairfax should keep the 10 days for isolation. For quarantine I believe they had already reduced it to 7 days. If they want 5 days + test on 5th day, that's fine, but it basically is 7 days at that point anyway. Does anyone know which schools will be piloting test to stay?

No way. Every kid 12-15 will be sitting out weeks and weeks of school for NO REASON, because FCPS parents were responsible and got their kids vaccinated.

I agree kids 12-15 who had their 2nd shot 6 or more months ago and can't yet get boosted shouldn't have to quarantine. The new CDC plan of 5 days quarantine isn't much different than FCPS 7 days. It isn't weeks because it usually takes a day or two for the sick kid to get tested and inform the school and then the exposed students get informed. However the change in isolation rules (which apply to people who actually have covid) shouldn't apply to the school because students can't strictly mask when they need to eat in a lunchroom with 100s of other students. If they want to make a separate space for isolation students to eat, that may be different, but otherwise it wouldn't be following the new guidelines.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The reduced isolation guidelines require masking for the 2nd 5 days. Students can't strictly mask all day unless they're given a dedicated space with separate ventilation or outside to eat. Fairfax should keep the 10 days for isolation. For quarantine I believe they had already reduced it to 7 days. If they want 5 days + test on 5th day, that's fine, but it basically is 7 days at that point anyway. Does anyone know which schools will be piloting test to stay?

No way. Every kid 12-15 will be sitting out weeks and weeks of school for NO REASON, because FCPS parents were responsible and got their kids vaccinated.

+1, Until they approve the booster for this age, they are FULLY VACCINATED for their age.

[Anonymous]

I'm confused. My child was vaccinated in June. It's been more than 6 mos. Will she have to quarantine or not and for how long?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reduced isolation guidelines require masking for the 2nd 5 days. Students can't strictly mask all day unless they're given a dedicated space with separate ventilation or outside to eat. Fairfax should keep the 10 days for isolation. For quarantine I believe they had already reduced it to 7 days. If they want 5 days + test on 5th day, that's fine, but it basically is 7 days at that point anyway. Does anyone know which schools will be piloting test to stay?

No way. Every kid 12-15 will be sitting out weeks and weeks of school for NO REASON, because FCPS parents were responsible and got their kids vaccinated.

+1, Until they approve the booster for this age, they are FULLY VACCINATED for their age.

I hope that is true. but have you seen this confirmed anywhere?