Chap Petersen mask letter from 2/8 to FCPS

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Anonymous wrote:Is someone really saying with a straight face that parents should be able to opt out of rules they don’t like?

Are you being sarcastic here?

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Anonymous wrote:Is someone really saying with a straight face that parents should be able to opt out of rules they don’t like?

Since you clearly haven’t been following the news…many, including our governor and state legislature, are saying that parents should be able to opt out of one specific rule for their children that many believe not only to be ineffectual, but moreover to be doing harm to children.

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Anonymous wrote:I totally missed the boat on this thread and don't want to read 36 pages of posts. Can anyone sum up what's going on? I read today in the Post that it was likely that a bill would pass that would give parents choice about masking in schools. Does this apply to teachers getting to take the masks off as well? And what is the deal with the timeline? It sounded like it could either be July (sad face) or end of February (happy face).

Summing it up:

Yes, there is a bill, likely to pass and be signed by the gov for emergency implementation --- meaning masks could be optional by Feb. 21 in VA schools. HOWEVER, as a teacher, your employer might be able to tell you to keep your mask or else.

That said, our case rate is down to 32 cases per 100k people, so it very likely will drop enough that FCPS should be withdrawing the mask requirement by the end of the month anyway.

What's FCPS's published metrics for dropping the mask requirement?

FCPS has been trying to follow American Federation of Teachers requests throughout the covid pandemic until the law forces them to be reasonable.

The federation wants ZERO covid cases anywhere as the metric for removing mask mandates in schools.

Since the fcps tends to jump when she says jump, it is safe to assume that since fcps has refused to publish any metrics, their off ramp is either zero cases of covid anywhere, or Youngkin, Peterson and the state government forcing their hand.

Liar. They were asking the CDC for guidance and have been talking about off-ramps for months.

^^ the American Federation of Teachers

Yes, the “off ramp” being the old “14 days no new cases.” Lol. Not at all realistic.

Liar.

Randi Weingarten - August 2021
What we’ve seen, again, in beginning of July, completely supported the CDC that said, if you’re vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask. We just didn’t want to be the mask police, obviously. Teachers didn’t want to do that in their classrooms. Given the Delta surge and that kids under 12 can’t get vaccinated and that half the kids 12 and over are not vaccinated — even more, I think 60% — that universal masking is necessary, at least right now. I understand when parents are saying, where’s the offramp? We can’t have masks forever. And I agree with them, and I understand that about the social cues and wanting to see smiles and wanting to see kids’ faces. And frankly, as an asthmatic, I really understand the point about labored breathing, because I have labored breathing every time I wear my damn mask. You know, so we do have to have some offramps in terms of, when can we get rid of these masks? But given the Delta variant, we completely agree with the CDC that there should be universal masking.


If you schmucks vaccinated your kids we could have gotten rid of masks earlier.

Well, that is just not even a little true.

Fcps high schools are approaching 90% vaccinated.

Everyone but wrestlers and basketball players/coaches are required to mask. Because fcps just loves to follow the science.

Bullsh1t.

<30% had been boosted.

Boosters are unnecessary for children. #science

They are for high schoolers who had their initial shots >5 months ago.

Teen boys are at least 20x more likely to get myocarditis from the shot than they are 5o die from covid.

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Anonymous wrote:For the last time: kids are not to blame for hospitalizations when adults and senior citizens are not getting vaccinated and boosted.

And no one from the government will touch the prevalent risk factor after extreme age, which is obesity.

So they are focused on restricting and masking children, whose covid risk factor is a big fat zero.

If they were serious about lowering covid risk, hospitalization and death, the leaders would have addressed gluttony, not masking 2 year olds.

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Private schools are allowing opt out and cases aren’t going up.

Other districts in Virginia and the country aren’t either, some all year!!!

You all don’t realize what a messed up bubble the DMV is. Fear breeds fear so we just keep it going.

[Anonymous]

Pushing unnecessary shots on kids makes more money for Pharma.

Using the concern about the pandemic to inspire healthy lifestyle changes does not.

[Anonymous]

I told y’all YOUNGKIN was going to lift the mask mandates in all schools. It’s coming at the end of this month, no more mask mandates

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Anonymous wrote:For the last time: kids are not to blame for hospitalizations when adults and senior citizens are not getting vaccinated and boosted.

And no one from the government will touch the prevalent risk factor after extreme age, which is obesity.

So they are focused on restricting and masking children, whose covid risk factor is a big fat zero.

If they were serious about lowering covid risk, hospitalization and death, the leaders would have addressed gluttony, not masking 2 year olds.

The kids have suffered the whole time. They suffered for the elderly and now that the elderly should be safe they are still suffering.

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Anonymous wrote:Private schools are allowing opt out and cases aren’t going up.

Other districts in Virginia and the country aren’t either, some all year!!!

You all don’t realize what a messed up bubble the DMV is. Fear breeds fear so we just keep it going.

Our private school went straight down after Youngkin's EO.

We were over a dozen the week before his EO and are now down to zero.

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Anonymous wrote:I totally missed the boat on this thread and don't want to read 36 pages of posts. Can anyone sum up what's going on? I read today in the Post that it was likely that a bill would pass that would give parents choice about masking in schools. Does this apply to teachers getting to take the masks off as well? And what is the deal with the timeline? It sounded like it could either be July (sad face) or end of February (happy face).

Summing it up:

Yes, there is a bill, likely to pass and be signed by the gov for emergency implementation --- meaning masks could be optional by Feb. 21 in VA schools. HOWEVER, as a teacher, your employer might be able to tell you to keep your mask or else.

That said, our case rate is down to 32 cases per 100k people, so it very likely will drop enough that FCPS should be withdrawing the mask requirement by the end of the month anyway.

What's FCPS's published metrics for dropping the mask requirement?

FCPS has been trying to follow American Federation of Teachers requests throughout the covid pandemic until the law forces them to be reasonable.

The federation wants ZERO covid cases anywhere as the metric for removing mask mandates in schools.

Since the fcps tends to jump when she says jump, it is safe to assume that since fcps has refused to publish any metrics, their off ramp is either zero cases of covid anywhere, or Youngkin, Peterson and the state government forcing their hand.

Liar. They were asking the CDC for guidance and have been talking about off-ramps for months.

^^ the American Federation of Teachers

Yes, the “off ramp” being the old “14 days no new cases.” Lol. Not at all realistic.

Liar.

Randi Weingarten - August 2021
What we’ve seen, again, in beginning of July, completely supported the CDC that said, if you’re vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask. We just didn’t want to be the mask police, obviously. Teachers didn’t want to do that in their classrooms. Given the Delta surge and that kids under 12 can’t get vaccinated and that half the kids 12 and over are not vaccinated — even more, I think 60% — that universal masking is necessary, at least right now. I understand when parents are saying, where’s the offramp? We can’t have masks forever. And I agree with them, and I understand that about the social cues and wanting to see smiles and wanting to see kids’ faces. And frankly, as an asthmatic, I really understand the point about labored breathing, because I have labored breathing every time I wear my damn mask. You know, so we do have to have some offramps in terms of, when can we get rid of these masks? But given the Delta variant, we completely agree with the CDC that there should be universal masking.


If you schmucks vaccinated your kids we could have gotten rid of masks earlier.

Well, that is just not even a little true.

Fcps high schools are approaching 90% vaccinated.

Everyone but wrestlers and basketball players/coaches are required to mask. Because fcps just loves to follow the science.

Bullsh1t.

<30% had been boosted.

Boosters are unnecessary for children. #science

They are for high schoolers who had their initial shots >5 months ago.

Duh. But don’t confuse the “scientists” on this post with facts.

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Anonymous wrote:Private schools are allowing opt out and cases aren’t going up.

Other districts in Virginia and the country aren’t either, some all year!!!

You all don’t realize what a messed up bubble the DMV is. Fear breeds fear so we just keep it going.

Our private school went straight down after Youngkin's EO.

We were over a dozen the week before his EO and are now down to zero.

I teach in a public school with 900+ students. We really haven’t had many staff or student cases. I’ve had no paused students.

[Anonymous]

When can these darn masks come off?

Is FCPS still contact tracing? I didn’t think so but my kids say they are.

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Anonymous wrote:Private schools are allowing opt out and cases aren’t going up.

Other districts in Virginia and the country aren’t either, some all year!!!

You all don’t realize what a messed up bubble the DMV is. Fear breeds fear so we just keep it going.

Our private school went straight down after Youngkin's EO.

We were over a dozen the week before his EO and are now down to zero.

I teach in a public school with 900+ students. We really haven’t had many staff or student cases. I’ve had no paused students.

I’m curious what your restrictions are like?

We are about 600 students. Separated seating, staggered lunch, no carpet, etc on the restrictions. Seems most cases have been community and didn’t spread. But I don’t know if it’s because we’ve had super strict restrictions or if it doesn’t really matter.

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Anonymous wrote:I totally missed the boat on this thread and don't want to read 36 pages of posts. Can anyone sum up what's going on? I read today in the Post that it was likely that a bill would pass that would give parents choice about masking in schools. Does this apply to teachers getting to take the masks off as well? And what is the deal with the timeline? It sounded like it could either be July (sad face) or end of February (happy face).

Summing it up:

Yes, there is a bill, likely to pass and be signed by the gov for emergency implementation --- meaning masks could be optional by Feb. 21 in VA schools. HOWEVER, as a teacher, your employer might be able to tell you to keep your mask or else.

That said, our case rate is down to 32 cases per 100k people, so it very likely will drop enough that FCPS should be withdrawing the mask requirement by the end of the month anyway.

What's FCPS's published metrics for dropping the mask requirement?

FCPS has been trying to follow American Federation of Teachers requests throughout the covid pandemic until the law forces them to be reasonable.

The federation wants ZERO covid cases anywhere as the metric for removing mask mandates in schools.

Since the fcps tends to jump when she says jump, it is safe to assume that since fcps has refused to publish any metrics, their off ramp is either zero cases of covid anywhere, or Youngkin, Peterson and the state government forcing their hand.

Liar. They were asking the CDC for guidance and have been talking about off-ramps for months.

^^ the American Federation of Teachers

Yes, the “off ramp” being the old “14 days no new cases.” Lol. Not at all realistic.

Liar.

Randi Weingarten - August 2021
What we’ve seen, again, in beginning of July, completely supported the CDC that said, if you’re vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask. We just didn’t want to be the mask police, obviously. Teachers didn’t want to do that in their classrooms. Given the Delta surge and that kids under 12 can’t get vaccinated and that half the kids 12 and over are not vaccinated — even more, I think 60% — that universal masking is necessary, at least right now. I understand when parents are saying, where’s the offramp? We can’t have masks forever. And I agree with them, and I understand that about the social cues and wanting to see smiles and wanting to see kids’ faces. And frankly, as an asthmatic, I really understand the point about labored breathing, because I have labored breathing every time I wear my damn mask. You know, so we do have to have some offramps in terms of, when can we get rid of these masks? But given the Delta variant, we completely agree with the CDC that there should be universal masking.


If you schmucks vaccinated your kids we could have gotten rid of masks earlier.

Well, that is just not even a little true.

Fcps high schools are approaching 90% vaccinated.

Everyone but wrestlers and basketball players/coaches are required to mask. Because fcps just loves to follow the science.

Bullsh1t.

<30% had been boosted.

Boosters are unnecessary for children. #science

They are for high schoolers who had their initial shots >5 months ago.

Teen boys are at least 20x more likely to get myocarditis from the shot than they are 5o die from covid.

What % chance of getting myocarditis from covid infection?

Guess they should mask up either way if they are really worried about myocarditis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private schools are allowing opt out and cases aren’t going up.

Other districts in Virginia and the country aren’t either, some all year!!!

You all don’t realize what a messed up bubble the DMV is. Fear breeds fear so we just keep it going.

I’m sure the privates that went mask optional are testing.