DC schools September vaccine mandate does not apply to elementary school children

[Anonymous]

The biggest issue is the quarantine periods when someone in class has covid. If you're vaxxed, you can continue going to school. If you're unvaxxed, you have to quarantine for 5 days every time there's a covid case in your classroom. That is a LOT of missed school for a stupid reason. You can be vaxxed and get covid just as easily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about boosters? My federal agency required boosters to be considered ‘up to date’.

Will DCPS also require boosters for every student over the age of 12?

Yes. Check your email.

I really hope parents push back on this. It is BS at this point, and an overreach by DCPS. Public school should not have barriers that include a vaccine that doesn’t prevent the spread of a disease that is pretty inconsequential in 99.99% of children.

+1 million

[Anonymous]

Really hard not to be cynical here. Who did Pfizer possibly pay off to push this mandate through?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about boosters? My federal agency required boosters to be considered ‘up to date’.

Will DCPS also require boosters for every student over the age of 12?

Yes. Check your email.

I really hope parents push back on this. It is BS at this point, and an overreach by DCPS. Public school should not have barriers that include a vaccine that doesn’t prevent the spread of a disease that is pretty inconsequential in 99.99% of children.

+1 million

Ok. Who did you write to about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about boosters? My federal agency required boosters to be considered ‘up to date’.

Will DCPS also require boosters for every student over the age of 12?

Yes. Check your email.

I really hope parents push back on this. It is BS at this point, and an overreach by DCPS. Public school should not have barriers that include a vaccine that doesn’t prevent the spread of a disease that is pretty inconsequential in 99.99% of children.

Why would I push back? My kids are already vaccinated and boosted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about boosters? My federal agency required boosters to be considered ‘up to date’.

Will DCPS also require boosters for every student over the age of 12?

Yes. Check your email.

I really hope parents push back on this. It is BS at this point, and an overreach by DCPS. Public school should not have barriers that include a vaccine that doesn’t prevent the spread of a disease that is pretty inconsequential in 99.99% of children.

Why would I push back? My kids are already vaccinated and boosted.

Cool. Then you are a happy camper, I guess. Move on to a different thread?

Some of us are extremely disturbed by the idea of these mandates. Some of us believe that this should be a decision left up to parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about boosters? My federal agency required boosters to be considered ‘up to date’.

Will DCPS also require boosters for every student over the age of 12?

Yes. Check your email.

I really hope parents push back on this. It is BS at this point, and an overreach by DCPS. Public school should not have barriers that include a vaccine that doesn’t prevent the spread of a disease that is pretty inconsequential in 99.99% of children.

DC is requiring masks at summer camp, you really think they are going to be ahead of the game on schools. This is pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about boosters? My federal agency required boosters to be considered ‘up to date’.

Will DCPS also require boosters for every student over the age of 12?

Yes. Check your email.

I really hope parents push back on this. It is BS at this point, and an overreach by DCPS. Public school should not have barriers that include a vaccine that doesn’t prevent the spread of a disease that is pretty inconsequential in 99.99% of children.

Why would I push back? My kids are already vaccinated and boosted.

Cool. Then you are a happy camper, I guess. Move on to a different thread?

Some of us are extremely disturbed by the idea of these mandates. Some of us believe that this should be a decision left up to parents.

Who did you contact at DCPS about this?

[Anonymous]

It'll be an easy lawsuit. All the other mandates have been struck down via lawsuits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It'll be an easy lawsuit. All the other mandates have been struck down via lawsuits.

Is there a lawsuit currently ongoing?

The Biden administration is still fighting in favor of the mandate for federal workers.

[Anonymous]

I am greatly enjoying this thread. For a few years lots of people were willing to engage all of you in debate about mandates, vaccines, etc. Now these threads are nothing but like minded people howling at the moon. No one bothers to engage you all or push back when you make up non-existent science or hang out with tin-hat conspiracy theorists who think Pfizer is paying off DCPS.

By all means, please proceed...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am greatly enjoying this thread. For a few years lots of people were willing to engage all of you in debate about mandates, vaccines, etc. Now these threads are nothing but like minded people howling at the moon. No one bothers to engage you all or push back when you make up non-existent science or hang out with tin-hat conspiracy theorists who think Pfizer is paying off DCPS.

By all means, please proceed...

Dude. Only FOUR percent of under 5s are vaccinated, and only 30% of 5-11 are fully vaccinated. You need to get out of your echo chamber. The vast majority of parents are not worried about their kids getting covid. At this point, the forces that are turning covid into a disruption that hurts kids are institutions (like DCPS) that are forcing parents to chose between vaccination and their kid staying in school.

As for the "non-existent science," it's quite clear that covid is very low risk for kids, and the vaccine does not stop infection or transmission at any significant rate (maybe not at all in the 5-11 year olds). It's absolutely irrational public policy to exclude kids from school based on their covid vaccination status.

Let's remember again: we're going on 2.5 years of covid and NOT A SINGLE DC KID has died from covid. I don't think any have died in MoCo or NOVA either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am greatly enjoying this thread. For a few years lots of people were willing to engage all of you in debate about mandates, vaccines, etc. Now these threads are nothing but like minded people howling at the moon. No one bothers to engage you all or push back when you make up non-existent science or hang out with tin-hat conspiracy theorists who think Pfizer is paying off DCPS.

By all means, please proceed...

Dude. Only FOUR percent of under 5s are vaccinated, and only 30% of 5-11 are fully vaccinated. You need to get out of your echo chamber. The vast majority of parents are not worried about their kids getting covid. At this point, the forces that are turning covid into a disruption that hurts kids are institutions (like DCPS) that are forcing parents to chose between vaccination and their kid staying in school.

As for the "non-existent science," it's quite clear that covid is very low risk for kids, and the vaccine does not stop infection or transmission at any significant rate (maybe not at all in the 5-11 year olds). It's absolutely irrational public policy to exclude kids from school based on their covid vaccination status.

Let's remember again: we're going on 2.5 years of covid and NOT A SINGLE DC KID has died from covid. I don't think any have died in MoCo or NOVA either.

YES to all of this!

To back this up, ZERO kids age 0-17 have died of Covid in Montgomery County. ZERO. Here is a link to back up that FACT.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/case-counts.html#deaths-age

How can any public health official justify a mandate for 12 year olds kids? Especially when the shot doesn’t prevent transmission. It is 100% unethical.

Mandate for nursing homes? Sure, maybe I could support that. But a mandate for kids? That is unnecessary, and quite honestly, does make me suspicious of what is going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about boosters? My federal agency required boosters to be considered ‘up to date’.

Will DCPS also require boosters for every student over the age of 12?

Yes. Check your email.

I really hope parents push back on this. It is BS at this point, and an overreach by DCPS. Public school should not have barriers that include a vaccine that doesn’t prevent the spread of a disease that is pretty inconsequential in 99.99% of children.

+1 million

Ok. Who did you write to about it?

Email any and everyone you can.

Email the Board of Ed. Email addresses located under Bios.

https://sboe.dc.gov/page/board-biographies

Email the Mayor. Email OSSE. Email the Department of Health.

Ask them to justify the decision to mandate his shot for kids to attend public schools. Inappropriate, for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about boosters? My federal agency required boosters to be considered ‘up to date’.

Will DCPS also require boosters for every student over the age of 12?

Yes. Check your email.

I really hope parents push back on this. It is BS at this point, and an overreach by DCPS. Public school should not have barriers that include a vaccine that doesn’t prevent the spread of a disease that is pretty inconsequential in 99.99% of children.

+1 million

Ok. Who did you write to about it?

Email any and everyone you can.

Email the Board of Ed. Email addresses located under Bios.

https://sboe.dc.gov/page/board-biographies

Email the Mayor. Email OSSE. Email the Department of Health.

Ask them to justify the decision to mandate his shot for kids to attend public schools. Inappropriate, for sure.

Have you heard back from anyone?