No more contact tracing or quarantining at our Arlington Diocese k-8 school.

[Anonymous]

Oh please- 95-98% of the e kids in our parish MS are still masking. There are 3 in DC’s class who are not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh please- 95-98% of the e kids in our parish MS are still masking. There are 3 in DC’s class who are not.

+1 No one is my children’s classrooms have opted out. And what I see in the carpool line indicate very few in the entire K-8 school have opted out of masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please- 95-98% of the e kids in our parish MS are still masking. There are 3 in DC’s class who are not.

+1 No one is my children’s classrooms have opted out. And what I see in the carpool line indicate very few in the entire K-8 school have opted out of masks.

We are at a school in Arlington and similar story, DC reports 3 out of 20 kids in their class don't wear masks. But I will say that those who are wearing them are not wearing them as vigilantly as before. When I go in for pick up most masks are hanging around the chin, and kids take them off and the teachers no longer ask them to put them on or adjust them properly, because it's optional now and if the kid says "my mom said I don't have to" then there's nothing they can do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please- 95-98% of the e kids in our parish MS are still masking. There are 3 in DC’s class who are not.

+1 No one is my children’s classrooms have opted out. And what I see in the carpool line indicate very few in the entire K-8 school have opted out of masks.

We are at a school in Arlington and similar story, DC reports 3 out of 20 kids in their class don't wear masks. But I will say that those who are wearing them are not wearing them as vigilantly as before. When I go in for pick up most masks are hanging around the chin, and kids take them off and the teachers no longer ask them to put them on or adjust them properly, because it's optional now and if the kid says "my mom said I don't have to" then there's nothing they can do.

It’s a joke. A charade. Very few are properly wearing effective-quality masks. What a waste of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, which school is this? We just secured a place for DD within the same diocese, but we would be very uncomfortable with the lax guidelines if it's widespread across other schools.

We go to an Arlington Diocese school, and got an email this week from the principal which said this is the changed guidance from the Fairfax County health department and they are following that guidance. If the school your dd is going to is in Fairfax county, it will be following the same policy.

I'm hopeful this is simply part of the path to the transformation from covid being a pandemic to being endemic. My kids and most of their classmates are still wearing masks in school. I suspect we'll continue to do so until spring break or so. If the numbers continue to plummet, maybe they'll drop them then. My kids only recently completed their vaccine series (both are under 12), but now that our whole family is vaccinated, I'm okay with us starting to expand our world a bit more again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, which school is this? We just secured a place for DD within the same diocese, but we would be very uncomfortable with the lax guidelines if it's widespread across other schools.

We go to an Arlington Diocese school, and got an email this week from the principal which said this is the changed guidance from the Fairfax County health department and they are following that guidance. If the school your dd is going to is in Fairfax county, it will be following the same policy.

I'm hopeful this is simply part of the path to the transformation from covid being a pandemic to being endemic. My kids and most of their classmates are still wearing masks in school. I suspect we'll continue to do so until spring break or so. If the numbers continue to plummet, maybe they'll drop them then. My kids only recently completed their vaccine series (both are under 12), but now that our whole family is vaccinated, I'm okay with us starting to expand our world a bit more again.

Is your school following the guidance and ending contact tracing?

I wonder why schools are allowed to make their own decisions?

Why doesn't the diocese provide guidance?

Our school is ignoring guidance and continuing to contact trace.

[Anonymous]

The child-maskers are getting angrier and crazier as they are forced to confront what was always obvious to most of us: they chose to harm children every day for no one's benefit.